Gavan Casey
@GavanCasey
Sports journalist with The 42 in Ireland. Boxing and rugby mainly. Host of The 42 Rugby Weekly podcast. ✉️ [email protected]
Things are fairly fucking atrocious when that second-half collapse by Cork City wasn’t even the worst by a Cork team this week
Another fantastic @Murray_Kinsella piece from Australia. The sheer number of brilliant, original angles he has found across the tour has been unbelievable. the42.ie/sky-rog-biggar…
A piece of history for Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan at Windsor Park, Belfast, on 13 September: the first ever world-title fight between two Irish boxers. Hometown hero Crocker and Limerick’s Donovan will set the record straight and rematch for the IBF welterweight strap.
Sad to hear that Maeve Kyle, Ireland’s first female Olympian in track and field, has passed away. She was a friend. My favourite Maeve story was track side in Florence in 1981 when I handed her my Casio watch and asked her if she could call my lap time out to me as the…
Very decent of Lisa Fallon to credit the RTÉ researcher by name while bringing up the piece of info he had fed the panel about Michelle Agyemang’s surname. It’s nice when pundits do that. Those people behind the scenes — often young people — put in a shift.
One last piece from Portrush - This is one of my favourite Rory McIlroy stories, though it's not really about Rory McIlroy at all. (Free to read) Rory McIlroy’s Portrush gesture completes one man’s 19-year journey to replace what was lost the42.ie/6768794
The Ukrainian cruiserweight convert has in five years eclipsed the accomplishments of any heavyweight since the '90s, and should be considered an all-timer among boxing's big men, writes Gavan Casey. the42.ie/oleksandr-usyk…
Chisora✅ Joshua ✅ Joshua ✅ Dubois ✅ Fury ✅ Fury ✅ Dubois ✅ Oleksandr Usyk came up from cruiserweight less than five years ago and has eclipsed every heavyweight career from the past 25 years. Easily an all-time top-10 heavyweight. Top seven or eight for me.
Last one from New York. On the Taylor-Serrano aftermath, the hidden weigh-in drama, the colourful Irish-Puerto Rican dynamic at MSG, and how ‘the greatest to ever do it’ reached into her past to close the loop against a fellow legend. the42.ie/katie-taylor-9…
Something I didn’t appreciate on the night: Netflix understood the exact moment when Irish people like to abandon the anthem, do a squat-jump, and take our respective positions on the field. Look at the timing of Taylor flashing up on the jumbotron here👌
Staying with Maurice for a Katie Taylor fight week is a real challenge. You read his boxing stuff and think, ‘Shit, I’ve gotta keep pace here.’ And then he drops this bad boy on you.
I asked the Limerick footballers if I could have full access to their game plans, training sessions, review meetings, gym work, coaching discussions and everything else in the lead-up to the Tailteann Cup final. Amazingly, they said yes irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…
Underrated aspect of Katie Taylor’s victory last night was that she removed all of the ‘headbutt’ bullshit from the equation. She boxed against her instincts (these days) on 39-year-old legs and still established daylight between herself and Serrano. 3-0. Game over, ball bursht.
A piece on Johnny Carson’s chair, finding the 1980 All-Ireland hurling final in a New York media museum, and how if you make it in The Garden like Sinatra, you’ve made it everywhere. (Will likely file a separate 5,000-word piece on meeting Kelsey Grammer) the42.ie/taylor-v-serra…
Ahead of Taylor Serrano III we chat to two of the best in the business - @GavanCasey, who is in America for the fight, and legendary boxing commentator Mike Costello secondcaptains.com
My friend @PetesyCarroll likes to say he isn’t a good writer, and it drives me nuts. He’s a brilliant writer, and this might be his greatest piece yet. A beautiful, beautiful story on Katie Taylor that every sports (and boxing) fan must read, and that every Irish man and…
Last night’s Taylor-Serrano presser cleansed me of the poison that lingered from the Cowboys Stadium clown-show in November. Katie was in rare, fiery form but there were also some lovely human moments between her and Amanda. It’s a special rivalry. the42.ie/taylor-v-serra…
While the trilogy fight makes its mark on the Big Apple, a flock of pigeons left their mark on Aer Lingus Flight EI 0105, writes @GavanCasey. the42.ie/katie-taylor-v…
Scoreboard obviously influenced Kilkenny to try work a goal at the end — but Tipp also thought they had a three-point lead and dropped back in front of their goal to protect it. Not as simple as ‘Kilkenny could have taken points.’ Entire shape of endgame would’ve been different.