Heaney

He also praised "great wordsmiths" from Northern Ireland including the poet Seamus Heaney, novelist Anna Burns and musician Van Morrison.

Heaney claims the care he received while training and playing matches during his rugby league career was insufficient.

One of the claimants in the rugby league case is Roy Heaney, 64, who played for Wigan and Salford in the 1980s having initially played football for Liverpool reserves and Bolton Wanderers.

Donna Heaney from the survivors' group Sisi said that victims need to be heard and believed.

He was, however, happy to discuss beekeeping, a fairly recent pursuit, and the poetry readings — Seamus Heaney, Stephen Dunn — he did on Instagram Live during the height of the pandemic.