Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 6hAlso: you'll never amount to anything as an author unless you're writing fiction. Which does rather overlook the large - very large - numbers of authors who write non-fiction. 020
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 8hEveryone is a writer now — but what does being a writer actually mean? Well apparently it means you're a "creative writer" and if you're not writing fiction you're not actually a writer.rte.ieEveryone is a writer now — but what does being a writer mean?I've taught creative writing for years, in universities, writers' centres, libraries and festivals, online and in person, and the people who come to these courses are always wildly different. 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 9hCompanies House will have to go after them as well, won't they, for all the accounting 'errors'/misstatements? It's the red tape that gets you in the end... 100
Reposted by Feargal McKayDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11hManchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread: 56960419
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 22hDon't weight the man down with expectations, Florian! “If he heads into the Tour well-prepared and in the form he’s in now, a stage win while wearing the rainbow jersey is certainly not out of the question.” A whole stage win! 010
Reposted by Feargal McKayFeargal McKay @cycologies.com · 30/09/2026Ineos - Tour Racing Ltd - accounts are in. Revenue of €54 million in 2025, down from €65 million in 2024. 031
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 30/09/2026Ah, the Wisdom of Crowds comes up against the Stupidity of Reddit... 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 30/09/2026In Europe, but not part of Europe. Andy Burnham's going to have to fix this and promise a Brit in the Euros jersey before the next election. 030
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 30/09/2026Three days later and people are still asking who the fuck is this guy who just became World Champion. Always a good sign... 020
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 30/09/2026Ineos - Tour Racing Ltd - accounts are in. Revenue of €54 million in 2025, down from €65 million in 2024. 031
Reposted by Feargal McKayFeargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026The 1990s was such a run of carthorses winning the Worlds - Brochard, Leblanc, Dhaenens - we actually had a pretty good run of thoroughbreds winning this century, with just Vainšteins and Astarloa blotting the copybook across a quarter of a century. 272
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026I wouldn't judge the women by the same standards I'm judging the men, TBH (and doubtlessly there are those who would say I shouldn't judge the men by those standards anyway). As you say, wins like Kiesenhofer's stand out for the way the race was won. 010
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026The 1990s was such a run of carthorses winning the Worlds - Brochard, Leblanc, Dhaenens - we actually had a pretty good run of thoroughbreds winning this century, with just Vainšteins and Astarloa blotting the copybook across a quarter of a century. 272
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026What would *you* be willing to do for 25 grand for two years? RTÉ could make one of those 'embarrass yourself' reality shows with that as the pitch... 010
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026They couldn't take the Flèche away from him...makes him a worthy winner. Also, IIRC, Americans of his era were taught by 7-Eleven that Laigueglia was a real Classic. 😉 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Yeah, I did wonder, but I think winning Flanders and the Worlds keeps him off the list. But he'd be in the reserves for it, yes? 100
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Only the best of the best get to wear the Rainbow Stripes. Plus, every few years, guys like Romāns Vainšteins 🇱🇻 and others we've long since forgotten or prefer not to remember. Someone should actually produce a listicle of the least worthy wearers of the rainbow jumper. 240
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Getting something similar on Gallica all the time these days. After about ten clicks you just get booted out with a "too many requests" message. I understand it's not their fault, but it's still frustrating. 010
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Now THIS is sport-washing. If the GAA had any morals the three clubs would reject the money and tell the Tech Bro billionaire to rehab his reputation elsewhere. #SpeirGormrte.ieZuckerberg donates €150,000 to three Waterford GAA clubsMark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated €150,000 to the three GAA clubs which are located closest to Strancally Castle in Co Waterford. 3275
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Wondering if it'd make a curious cyclo-tourism read, maybe as part of a bit of a binge of other FWW books where the authors cycle the front (your own, that Nigel Bruce one etc). 110
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Teams are living, on-going entities. Large, painful punishments - point deductions, transfer bans - will hurt a team into the future and do more damage than symbolically stripping titles. There is no point in pretending that some other team won the titles Man City won. Cycling proves that. 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Re the Man City case and potential punishment. I really do hope that football learns from cycling that taking away victories is, ultimately, pretty pointless. Yes, it may have been the only way for cycling to punish a rider. But punishing a team? It's not the only way. 110
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026The problem with both is that they bring bad news to their individual sports. Ok, the NBA can shake that off, that's Americans for you. The Premier League? The bad PR is going to linger. Would the UCI have the courage to face such bad press by publicly prosecute someone breaking spending rules? 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Yes, in both of those cases the guilty have been caught. But have all the guilty been caught? 100
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026The recent case of Steve Ballmer in the NBA and the current Man City case with the EPL should be a lesson to all in cycling who think salary caps or any other kind of spending rules are going to be a panacea. Both cases demonstrate how easy it is to circumvent spending rules using third parties. 110
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Ok FWW peeps. Not a war buff in general, but this is going for a fiver. Should I? Described as a "walking, cycling and driving guide to the principal British battles of 1915 on the Western Front". 111
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Not good Tour prep, by any standard. But still he made the Tour. He crashed a couple times, without crocking any bones. Made it through the Alps. Began to dream of breaking away maybe on the road to Bordeaux. Only to throw a wobbly in the Pyrénées + quit, blaming a broken pump + mean foreigners. 000
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Holland had only just turned pro a couple months before the Tour, in May. In his first pro outing, the Wembley Six at the Empire Pool (today's Ovo), he crocked his collar bone. While recovering from that, he went for a walk in the woods, tripped, fell, and crocked his collarbone again. 100
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026On June 30, 1937, Charlie Holland - Tom Holland's great uncle but I'm not telling you which Tom Holland - took the line at the Tour de France thinking he and Bill Burl were the first Brits to do so. 120
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026Yeats and the occult @juliansimpson.bsky.social ... do you know any podcasters who'd get a kick out of that? I can't begin to imagine what Dr Peck would call it. 030
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 29/09/2026"And he causes all [who wear the Pervert Glasses], the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their temple, the Mark of the Beast [Zuckerberg]." Book of Revelation 13:16-17 160
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 28/09/2026Meet in the middle: irresolvable. It's the un- that makes unsolvable feel wrong (IMO). 020
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 28/09/2026I know that what's happening in Drumcree is no laughing matter but you have to admire the ability to turn everything into a seisiún #SpeirGorm 061
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 24/09/2026Condolences @bikesnbukes.eurosky.social. So sorry for your loss. 110
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 23/09/2026Hollywood here I come!rivieraradio.mcCyclists wanted in Nice for new film starring Natalie Portman and Jonathan Bailey | Riviera RadioCyclists from across the Côte d’Azur are being invited to apply as extras for Pumping Black, a new film starring Natalie Portman and Jonathan Bailey. 0112
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 21/09/2026Every discipline has at least one bad historian to hate on, doesn't it? 100
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 19/09/2026Kinda glad I didn't find any Black cyclists on it, certainly before 1882, as that keeps Albert Pearce and Charlie Rose in the running for "first/one of the first" status. 010
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 19/09/2026Yeah, the impression I get is African here means Black. This Tom Tully was the 1890s one. In 1893 he fought a kangaroo in Lowreys Music Hall in Dublin, now the Olympia Theatre, I think you have your six foot lady fighter - sorry, forgotten her name - appearing there when it was the Empire. 210
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 19/09/2026Not sure if you've seen this @oispooky.bsky.social but might be worth bookmarking. Hoped I might fight even one cyclist on it, got zip, but you might have better luck with boxers. Tom 'The Kangaroo Fighter' Tully and Peter Jackson are both on it.africansinireland.comDatabase – Africans in Ireland, 1578-1921 120
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com · 16/09/2026"It's chocolate Santas, sir! Hundreds of them!" Kinder? This is cruel! 050
Reposted by Feargal McKayTom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026How did I not know about this??? It’s got my name written all over it. International bestseller, blockbuster movie (think Escape to Victory, but in bikes), merch, you name it. It might even be true, who knows? 2175