Dear “Inside the Irish” fans, “Inside the Irish” foes and, of course, my parents —
I owe you an apology. Throughout the latter stretch of the past 137 days without my byline, I doubted my editor. It should have caught more of my attention when he insisted on adding some optimism to my April column shuttering this site for the foreseeable future. In more than three years, he had never exercised editorial license on a single item I wrote.
But on that Friday, he worried the column felt “a bit too final.”
So I added a line near the end: “If football doesn’t wait too long, perhaps this byline will accompany kickoff.