FIVE-TIME ALL-Ireland winner Philly McMahon has been named as the 2017 winner for the eir Sports Book of the Year award.
Written by sports journalist Niall Kelly, Deputy Editor of The42, McMahon’s autobiography ‘The Choice’ looks at Philly’s relationship with his brother John, who died in 2012 at the age of 31 after a long struggle with heroin addiction.
John was at the point of being almost drug-free at the time.
McMahon’s book beat off competition from other works on the shortlist — Jackie Tyrrell’s ‘The Warriors Code’, written by Christy O’Connor, and ‘The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish cycling’s golden generation’ by Barry Ryan.
Previous winners of the award include Kieran Donaghy’s ‘What Do You Think of That?’
The42 has just published its first book, Behind The Lines, a collection of some of the year’s best sports stories. Pick up your copy in Eason’s, or order it here today (€10):
Well done Kate. Absolutely outstanding
Delighted for you, so proud of achieving Silver, after a stunning indoor championship. What an athlete. A fantastic role model for every athlete in lreland, well done and thanks for time and effort put in to allow us to have Olympic dreams again
Fantastic achievement, well done.
Watched you all the way. Brilliant. Well done. Also well done to the BBC coverage who were cheering you on all the way. No “ Our Girl” language.
Well done Dundalk proud
Some achievement on the world stage, fair play to her and her team. Looking forward to watching her over the next decade please God. Another Irish female star.
Soooooooo proud
Brillent next its gold .Anyone know what station its on so i wont miss next two days
@SEAN: found it
@SEAN: bbc 2
Fair play Kate. Phenomenal performance!
Amazing stuff – what an achievement and what a 2 weeks! New Irish sporting superstar in the making, congrats Kate! Now imagine what she could do if she was a full time pro…
Amazing stuff
Only saw the 800m but she pulverised her rival for silver. And the gold medal winner didn’t find it too easy to keep up with her. There is surely more to come!
Outstanding achievement!
Will she be saying the same thing when she represents Northern Ireland at the commonwealth games next year? British occupied
@John Deane: Unlikely John if you knew anything about her! You should try and poison some other thread instead
@John Deane: born in the republic off ireland dundalk
Wens rhasisat racing