Jim Carney (poet)

Jim Carney (born February 1950) is an Irish poet, journalist and former presenter.

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, 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. In 1971 he published his first book, Echoes From a Darkened Alley, a collection of poems. He was a selector for his club, Milltown when they won their second 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.

Bibliography

Echoes From a Darkened Alley, 1971, (Poetry)

References

Galway Authors, Helen Maher, 1976

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