Con Houlihan

Con Houlihan (6 December 1925 – 4 August 2012) was an Irish sports journalist who wrote for The Evening Press and The Sunday World for 6 decades.

Quotes

• A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything.
  • Greenslade, Roy (6 August 2012). "Con Houlihan, Ireland's premier sportswriter, dies at 86". The Guardian. 

• Paddy dashed back towards his goal like a woman who smells a cake burning. The ball won the race and it curled inside the near post as Paddy crashed into the outside of the net and lay against it like a fireman who had returned to find his station ablaze.
  • The Evening Press, 25 September 1978. As reprinted in the Irish Independent following Houlihan's death.