Good/Bad Books

Hmm tis autobiography season again, any good ones out there or what to avoid. Definitely off the shopping list is Eugene whinger McGee's

Conor Mortimer's book goes on sale next week, that should ruffle a few feathers.

Some extracts - http://mayoglobe.ie/10-shocking-extracts-conor-mortimers-new-book/

Link is a pisstake but you get the gist.

shane curran from roscommon

There's a biography out of the late Dermot Earley senior:
http://www.irishbooksdirect.ie/sports-games-gaa/sports-games-gaa/dermot-earley---an-officer-and-a-gentleman/

JohnnyC wrote:

There's a biography out of the late Dermot Earley senior:
http://www.irishbooksdirect.ie/sports-games-gaa/sports-games-gaa/dermot-earley---an-officer-and-a-gentleman/

that would be my choice Johnny...the Title says it all....although will deffo buy(or get the chaps to purchase) Cake..met him in Pauric Kellys Bar in Mucklagh recently,jayses t'was one of the most hilarious couple of hours i've spent in a long time.....and we were only drinkin' tae...

Paul Galvins out too wouldnt say it would be great though

MD wrote:

Paul Galvins out too wouldnt say it would be great though

Actually came across ok on the Late Late show on Friday. Said that the reason he adopted the nasty cynical attitude on the field was because he saw how effective it was for Armagh and Tyrone when they intimidated Kerry in the early part of the last decade.
Also said the notebook incident with the referee was a wake up call for him and he became a better footballer because of it.
Certainly a player you'd like to have in your team as he was very influential in big games.

Met Galvin at the Alex Ferguson interview in the Convention Centre last year, he's a really nice guy. Top player too - think Kerry definitely had to harden up after 2002 and 2003.

Been reading Eugene McGee's book and I quite like it. He and Colm O'Rourke are the football analysts I most like reading. One revelation in it – he was asked if he was interested in the Kildare job around the same time as Mick O'Dwyer. He was in bed sick with flu and couldn't make it to the scheduled meeting. He then heard later in the week that Micko had got the job. He writes, "Kildare people will probably say it was their lucky day!"

I would thoroughly recommend Damian Lawlor's book on last year's hurling championship and the background to it.

My favourite ever GAA book is Out Of Our Skins by Liam Hayes, it was reprinted last year. It was a fascinating insight into the great Meath team he was part of, and the ruthlessness they adopted to ensure they continually beat Dublin. Genuinely, the current Kildare team could learn from it!

His biography of Kevin Heffernan from last year was very good too. V funny story in it about Bernard Brogan Snr making a return to the Dublin team and a certain Paddy O'Donoghue giving him a "welcome back" present in his first game against Kildare!