John Fogarty: The lost sportswriter - bards like Hogan are always missed

Vincent Hogan doesn’t miss the sportswriting gig - but it misses him.

OOH-AHH: Sportswriter Vincent Hogan with Ireland legend, Paul McGrath, at the launch of The Lost Sportswriter at The Iveagh Garden Hotel in Harcourt Street, Dublin. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 - 07:00

May 1, 2019. A significant day for Vincent Hogan the writer, but Vincent Hogan the golfer too.

We will come to his former guise in a moment but in Cobh Golf Club that afternoon his tasty up-and-down on the par 5 18th sealed the annual interprovincial press title for Leinster, aka the Dublin Journalists Golf Society.

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