A visually-challenged Heathcliff

It's been a while since we had one of those 'the Sports section meets the Brontës' mentions. Here's one today courtesy of The Irish Times:

Back in the studio Hook was paying tribute to the Croke Park referee, “He doesn’t have a car in the car park, he has a white stick and a tin can because he is certainly visually challenged”.
He was too, at times, but it might have been the fog that clouded his vision, the pitch resembling a scene on the moors from Wuthering Heights. Jonathan Sexton, our dashing hero, has been called many things in his time, but, rarely, we suspect, Heathcliff. Until Saturday. (Mary Hannigan)

Well, it does look as if it comes a point in every public man's life where he is compared by some news outlet or other to Heathcliff.

As in this article on Artslink (South Africa) which talks about a local production of The Woman in Black:

He refuses to acknowledge the existence of ghosts as he observes the moors and marshes surrounding the house that would even give Heathcliff the creeps. (Leon Van Nierop)

Another pop culture approach to Wuthering Heights, of course, would be that of Kate Bush's famous song. The Courier Mail reports that it's made it to number 47 of the 'Hummingbird100 Hottest Female Songs'.

And on the blogosphere, The Valve asks, 'Does anyone know of historicist criticism relating Wuthering Heights to stories of feral children?' And Comfortable Words is inspired by Shirley Keeldar's organisation of local charity.

Categories: Music, Shirley, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights