Jim Carney (poet)

Jim Carney is an Irish poet, journalist and former presenter, best known for The Sunday Game.

Jim Carney
Born
James Carney

(1950-02-21) 21 February 1950
Milltown, County Galway, Ireland
NationalityIrish
EducationTuam CBS
OccupationSports Broadcaster and Journalist
Notable credit(s)
The Sunday Game

A native of Parkroe, Milltown, Tuam, and a son of Thomas Carney, he was educated at Milltown National School and Tuam CBS. A member of the Tuam Theatre Guild and a journalist with The Tuam Herald - where he worked alongside subsequent RTÉ western editor Jim Fahy.[1] He was later appointed as a journalist and broadcaster with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), becoming the first presenter of the now landmark Gaelic games show, The Sunday Game in 1979.

Preferring to be behind the camera, Carney moved into commentary after two seasons, and remained a commentator and reporter for The Sunday Game until 2010, also working on the channel's live All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals coverage as a reporter and interviewer, plus taking extra duties when regular season live coverage was introduced in 1995.[2]

During this time, Carney was also doubling as editor of The Tuam Herald for a period in the 1990s, and served as sports editor from 1985 up to his retirement in 2015. Since then, he writes a weekly sports column for the same newspaper.[3]

In 1971 he published his first book, Echoes From a Darkened Alley, a collection of poems. A brilliant reader of football, he played a key role in the management team for his club Milltown when they won their second and last Galway Senior Football Championship in 1981. He was also a selector of the Galway team that were beaten by Dublin in the 1983 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final by a scoreline of 1–10 to 1–8.

In 2020, Carney was presented with the “Services to Sport Award” by the Galway Sports Stars Awards.

Bibliography
  • Echoes From a Darkened Alley, 1971, (Poetry)
gollark: Things acting as servers, with internet connectivity and the ability to do IP and whatever, are surely basically fast enough™ to do cryptography.
gollark: And in most cases it won't, because computers are fast and can easily deal with running a few block ciphers over things.
gollark: Well, if it doesn't involve any other compromises, it is good.
gollark: I would not be averse to non-TLS protocols in use as long as they provide approximately the same security properties.
gollark: I can change it to "TLS or other suitable client to server encryption layer".

References
  1. Siggins, Lorna (31 December 2011). "Award-winning RTE western editor closes a 46-year career". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. Glennon, Stephen (6 December 2013). "Radio man at heart looks back on long RTE career". Connacht Tribune. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. Carney, Jim (21 December 2016). "Through the lens of a camera, the magic of sporting memories" (PDF). The Tuam Herald. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  • Galway Authors, Helen Maher, 1976
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