The Last Ditch: How One GAA Championship Gave a Sportswriter Back His Life

Name: The Last Ditch: How One GAA Championship Gave a Sportswriter Back His Life
Author: Eamonn Sweeney
ISBN: 9781399734639

by Eamonn Sweeney

ISBN: 9781399734639

Published: 2025-05

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"Sweeney's prose is on fire. A blistering book that readers will relish enormously." MICHAEL HARDING "A cracking read ... a championship season as redemption song." MICHAEL CLIFFORD "All the tension of a tight knockout encounter ... one of the books of the year." MIKE McCORMACK In the summer of 2024, sports columnist Eamonn Sweeney set out to follow the All-Ireland championships around the country, retracing footsteps he'd first laid down in his 2004 bestseller The Road to Croker. But there was one big problem. For many years, he had struggled with a crippling travel phobia that left him largely confined to his hometown in West Cork. To fulfil his publishing contract, he had to face his deepest fears. The Last Ditch is a story about mental health, hidden shame and a life-changing moment in a remote train station. It's about a hurling championship which may have been the greatest ever played and a football championship which definitely was not. It's about unlikely triumphs,...

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