Your favourite sports journalists

[seafoid]

Des Cahill
SBB esp when Galway are involved but also for the Katie Taylor final
Keith Duggan
The Guardian soccer crowd
Gerry Thornley
Kevin Cashman's back catalogue

[BennyHarp]

I've always enjoyed Hugh McIlvanney, I believe he has recently retired. I recently stumbled across his article after Celtic's win in Lisbon in 1967. Great stuff!

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/may/21/lisbon-lions-celtic-internazionale

Edit: I've just noticed others have mentioned Hugh.

[The Stallion]

Joe Brolly
Jonathan Wilson
Barney Ronay

[No wides]

Paddy Heaney - always informative, astute and never bias!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Stallion]

Yes, Heaney was good in the Irish News.

[mikehunt]

Roy Curtis.
Gerry Thornley.
Insightful and objective at all times. 

[Hardy]

No one comes near (perhaps for good reason).

[longballin]

Dare I say it... Tom Humphries was excellent though events that ended it were dreadful.

[bennydorano]

What happened to him? Always enjoyed his stuff, have a book of his somewhere.

Paddy Heaney was / is my fav Gaa Journo. Hugh McIvanney was always excellent, I quite like Matthew Syed in the Times. As much as Paul Kimmage infuriates me sometimes he's a compelling journo & sports author. Brolly is a good read too.

[longballin]

Humpheries got into trouble involved with a 15-year-old girl etc... bad stuff. 

[blewuporstuffed]

What happened to him? Always enjoyed his stuff, have a book of his somewhere.

Paddy Heaney was / is my fav Gaa Journo. Hugh McIvanney was always excellent, I quite like Matthew Syed in the Times. As much as Paul Kimmage infuriates me sometimes he's a compelling journo & sports author. Brolly is a good read too.

Agree about Kimmage.
Paddy Heaney was generally very good as well. Brolly can be good, but the trouble is, its one good article in 10 and gets lost among all the other guff.

[johnneycool]

Des Cahill
SBB esp when Galway are involved but also for the Katie Taylor final
Keith Duggan
The Guardian soccer crowd
Gerry Thornley
Kevin Cashman's back catalogue

A thespian and dyed in the wool Corkman when Cork could hurl, mad as a bag of frogs, but entertaining nonetheless.

[mouview]

Oliver Holt
Brian Glanville

[mikehunt]

David Walsh of Sunday Times.

[The Stallion]

I must say i found Holt's columns in the Mirror to be unspeakably awful on the odd occasion I read them.

Brian Reade another who loves to write nonsense about "proper" football supporters.