Declan Lynch

For the Antrim captain, see Declan Lynch (Gaelic footballer).

Declan Lynch (born 1961) is an Irish columnist who works for the Sunday Independent, a newspaper in Ireland.

Declan Lynch was born in Athlone, Ireland, He attended Coosan NS and Marist College, Athlone.[1] He graduated from Marist College secondary school in 1978. Lynch dropped out of law school after one year and began writing for the music magazine Hot Press. He did this for a number of years before leaving to work for the Sunday Independent. Lynch writes a weekly opinion column that is published in the Sunday newspaper.

Lynch also has a number of other works to his credit. He helped John Giles with his autobiography.[2] In recent years he helped a postman called Tony O'Reilly write a book called Tony10, which was published by Gill Books.

Works

  • Ireland on Three Million Pounds a Day (May 1999)
  • Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (January 2003)
  • All The People, All The Time (April 2004)
  • The Rooms (Hot Press Books, January 2005)
  • Free Money (April 2009)
  • The Book of Poor Ould Fellas (with Arthur Matthews) (2009)
  • A Football Man – My Autobiography, by John Giles (2010)
  • Tony 10 (Gill Books, March 2019)


Notes

  1. ^ Lynch, Declan. ""Declan Lynch: The normalisation of rugby continues — and it's Gaelic games that will take the hit"." The Sunday Independent. 22 October 2023. Retrieved on 20 November 2023.
  2. ^ Humphries, Tom. ""John Giles, national treasure - SPORT: A Football Man: My Autobiography By John Giles"." Irish Times. 20 November 2010..