This unique book is one of a family of books titled 'Game of my Life' which are being published in every county in Ireland – offering a magnificent oral history of over 60 years of success and failure on the football and hurling fields within each county.The Meath edition includes first person testimonials from the stars of the 1967 All-Ireland winning team (including captain, Peter Darby), and the 1987 and '88 All-Ireland winning teams (including Colm O'Rourke, David Beggy, Bob O'...

25 of Dublin's greatest footballers over the last 50 years remember the one game that defined their life in the famous blue, including... Johnny Magee. Paddy Christie, Paul Curran, Vinnie Murphy, Kevin Nolan, Charlie Redmond, Paul Griffin, Ray Cosgrove, John O'Leary, Barney Rock, Kieran Duff, Jack Sheedy, Alan Larkin , Robbie Kelleher, Ger Brennan, Tommy Carr, Ciarán Whelan and Collie Moran

"As will be seen, there is not much missing here. I thought that the sections were well balanced, with rarely too much or too little on a given topic...This is a text to be welcomed by both teachers and students." BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION (on the first edition)The second edition of this successful textbook explains the basic principles behind the key techniques currently used in the modern biochemical laboratory and describes the pros and cons of each tec...

1% of the US population is behind bars.As a criminal defense lawyer, I help criminals stay out of jail. The stories outlined here are just that – stories. These stories can happen to someone you know and love. Reality and fantasy are intertwined. The criminals get into trouble over sexual indiscretion, in mind- blowing circumstances, set within a story plot that is unbelievable, while it is in fact perfectly true. At the heart of them, these stories are a discourse on law in litera...

'There's a difference between living and being alive.'Jim McGuinness inherited a wounded thing when he took over as manager of the Donegal senior football team in the summer of 2010. When he stepped down just over four years later, the same group of players had won three Ulster championships, the All-Ireland title of 2012 and succeeded in overturning a century-old perception of how Gaelic football should be played.His departure also marked the end of a personal odyssey, which had begun alm...

Lennie - The Autobiography of Lennie Lawrence is the story of one of football's most long-serving and well liked characters. In a career spanning over 30 years "Lennie" is one of football's elite belonging to a unique group of managers including Sir Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough and most recently Steve Coppell who have managed over a 1000 league matches in their career. Having never played League football he took his first steps in football management with Plymouth Argyle as Caretaker manage...

Kevin Heffernan was a giant amongst GAA men.A giant with a brilliant mind who repeatedly warned everybody that he would not let his own mother get in the way of him winning one more game of football.Heffo was deeply admired and absolutely feared like no other. And like no other manager in the history of the GAA, his strength of mind and brutal toughness as a leader raised an army that was called his own – Heffo’s Army.Heffo: A Brilliant Mind tells the Kevin...

'Goalkeepers walk a tightrope between triumph and disaster...'The hurling goalkeeper must surely occupy the most precarious position on the pitch -- glorified as a saviour if their team succeeds and damned if they fail. For this book Christy O'Connor has had unique and continuous access to twelve goalkeepers over one season and tracked their experiences through the highs and lows, the celebrations and rejections, the saves and the misses, resulting in an inside sto...

The Warrington Wolves Miscellany is the definitive set text for every fan of the world famous Wire. Packed with facts, fun, gossip, nostalgia and conjecture, it looks back over 135 years of glorious history to celebrate the personalities, victories and controversies of the sport's biggest name. Handily pocket-sized to pull out in the middle of those pub arguments over who was the fastest, dirtiest or biggest, this book will not only tell you who scored the most tr...

Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book AwardsGraeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world sport's most engrossing rivalries. He knows as much as anybody about the heat of England v Australia battles, having played in three series wins and also the whitewash defeat of 2013-14 when its intensity ended his international career. However, it brought out some of his best displays in Test cricket.But he is just ...

MAGNIFICENT SEVENYorkshire’s Championship YearsTHE MEN, THE MAGIC, THE MEMORIESThe Players’ Own Storywith Andrew CollomosseForeword by Ray IllingworthAfterword by Brian Close“It was a marvellous time for Yorkshire cricket, a golden era that no county has come close to matching in over half a century.”Ray Illingworth“Brilliant, intimate insight into a rich time for Yorkshire cricket through those who moulded it. The laughs, ...

Did you know that in 1924, Mick Gill created history by winning two All-Ireland Senior Hurling medals in the same year and for different counties? Jack Lynch is the only player in GAA history to have won six successive All-Ireland medals (five in hurling). The 2013 All-Ireland Hurling Final was the first to be played under flood-lights, exactly 100 years after Croke Park was first purchased. Do you know the name of every inter-county ground in Ireland? Who was full forward on the team of t...