Dublin, My Dublin
The last stop on the 39A.
What is Hansfield Road?
When you complete your feature story, you end with this.
What is a kicker?
She graduated from UCD?
Who is Odile?
What year was Michael Hogan killed at Croke Park?
What was 1920?
They sing N17.
Who are the Saw Doctors?
Perhaps Dublin's finest chocolate maker -- and its finest professor.
Who is Butler?
The type of snippet used to start lots of feature stories.
What is an anecdote?
The two races Brady reported on during the Morton Games?
What are the 100 meters and the Morton Mile?
The seating capacity of Croke Park?
What is 82,300?
What is Dalkey?
That's how you spell the river that cuts through Dublin.
What is Liffey?
This is what a nut graf accomplishes in a feature story.
What is a summary?
The important question Jackson asked Marie Crowe.
Why are women sports not covered much in Ireland?
Herb Elliott.
A folk singer in Galway sang a song to Isaac, stressing this?
Its acronym is DART.
What is Dublin Area Rapid Transit?
What are secondary sources?
The way you spell the man's name who provided Isaac and Ashley and Sydne and Julia and Beck with profile subjects.
What is Padraig McLoughlin?
A type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first- and second-place finishers perfectly.
What is an exacta?
The song Sam promises to sing in the final night of Karaoke.
What is I dunno?
The area of Dublin where Morton Stadium resides.
What is Santry?
Boxing gyms, renowned for their simplicity, often double as shrines to the elite. In Las Vegas, banners for The Money Team hang under a wall of fight posters at the Mayweather Boxing Club, an unsubtle acknowledgement of Floyd Mayweather’s achievements. Wild Card officially belongs to Freddie Roach, but even the Hall of Fame trainer will concede that it’s the House That Manny Pacquiao Built, with pictures of a triumphant Pacquiao wallpapering Roach’s Hollywood club.
What is the lede to Katie Taylor’s Long, Strange Journey?
The person who asked the very first question when we met Liam Ryan at the Irish Times.
Who is Ashley?
The horse race in the US that eveyrone in Ireland hopes Bedtime Story will one day run in.
What is the Breeders Cup?
In U2's song “Breathe” the lyrics make note of June 16th, the day this book is set on.
What is Ulysses?