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Football’s 'coming out' : Soccer and homophobia in England’s tabloid press .
(Media International Australia, 2011)
This article examines the current contradictory discourses on homosexuality and soccer within the British (specifically English) newspaper media. While support ostensibly is given in the press to the eradication of homophobia ...
Community Radio in Ireland (Pre-Published Version)
(Sage Publications Inc., 2011)
Migration, Masculinity and the Fugitive State of Mind in the Irish Emigrant Footballer Autobiography: the Case of Paul McGrath
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, 2010)
The ‘confessional’ autobiography has become a popular variant of professional football
autobiography in Britain. Co-written ‘autobiographies’ by prominent former emigrant Irish or Irish
descended international footballers ...
New Technologies and the Facilitation of Participation in Community Radio.(Pre-Published Version)
(Intellect, 2011)
This paper investigates the extent to which Irish community radio stations use new
technologies to facilitate the participation of members of their communities in
programme production, station management and in the ...
Antihero as National Icon? The Contrariness of Roy Keane as Fantasy Embodiment of the ‘New Ireland’.
(Peter Lang Ltd,International Academic Publishers., 2010)
Maternity services in the Irish mass media: an analysis of media content from 2007–2012
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2013)
The mass media play a key role in informing the public about matters of public interest and, critically, in the actual shaping of public opinion about those matters. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to ...
Suing the Pope and Scandalising the People: Irish attitudes to sexual abuse by clergy pre- and post-screening of a critical documentary
(Irish Communications Review, 2010)
The rise of secularism and the decline of religiosity in Ireland: the pattern of religious change in Europe
(Common Ground Publishing, 2011)
The European Values Study is a pan-European project which utilises an omnibus survey
focusing especially on values associated with work, religion, lifestyles and other issues. Its most recent
data gathering exercise was ...
Introduction: non-western popular music
(Ashgate, 2011)
Diaspora and Rootedness, Amateurism and Professionalism in Media Discourses of Irish Soccer and Rugby in the 1990s and 2000s
(Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)
This article explores the tensions between conceptualizations of the nation in terms of diaspora and rootedness, and between amateurism and professionalism, in Irish media discourses of Irish soccer and rugby in the 1990s ...