Sarah corcoran michael duignan autobiography
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Life, Death and Hurling
May 12th, 2012by Brendan O Sullivan
Michael Duignan, RTE analyst and former Offaly hurler, is the first GAA man from that county to write an autobiography.
Sarah corcoran michael duignan autobiography
It is not your typical GAA story, it is more than a tale of matches lost and won, of highs and lows on the hurling field. It is a deeply moving account of his personal life and in particular his wife Edel's battle with cancer, which she was eventually to lose at the young age of 41.
The book opens with Michael being warned by close friends that he has been involved in too many heated arguments.
A pattern had developed, in the period before and after Edel's death, of rows in pubs, Michael fighting fire with fire-punches thrown, glass broken, a waitress knocked over. People made allowances for him, the gardai were not involved-but he was walking a thin line.
The warnings eventually hit home and he determines to change.
He describes how Edel made a routine visit to her GP in 2002. This resulted i