Con Houlihan Quotes

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“A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything.”

Con Houlihan

[Roy, Greenslade, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/aug/06/ireland-irish-independent, Con Houlihan, Ireland's premier sportswriter, dies at 86, The Guardian, 6 August 2012]

“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.”

Con Houlihan

The Evening Press, 25 September 1978. As reprinted https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/con-houlihan-paddy-dashed-back-to-his-goal-like-a-woman-who-smells-a-cake-burning--26885274.html in the Irish Independent following Houlihan's death.