My Autobiography / AP McCoy

Tony ‘AP’ McCoy is unquestionably the greatest and most successful jump-jockey of all time.  He has collected a record sixteen consecutive jump jockey’s titles to date, and since 1992 he has ridden over 3,000 winners, saying ‘I never stop dreaming of the day I’ll reach 4,000.’ 

In 2002, he beat Sir Gordon Richards’ record of 269 winners in a season by riding 289.

In April 2010 AP achieved his lifelong ambition when he won the Grand National at Aintree on Don’t Push It.  It was his fifteenth attempt to win the race, a victory that captured the public’s... Read More

Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson

The shocking, controversial, moving story of Matt Hampson, the rugby player who dislocated his neck and was paralysed in a England training session. 'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with other young England hopefuls.

On a cold, grey, overcast day in 2005, the cream of young English rugby gathered at a Northampton training ground. Matt Hampson, 'Hambo' to his mates, was one of them. He had dreamt of playing rugby for England ever since he had picked up a rugby ball at school. His skill, conviction and dedication had brought him to the... Read More

Inside the Pelaton

Nicolas Roche has a famous surname to all fans of cycling. The son of legendary Irish and World Champion Stephen Roche, Nicolas had to fight to make it as a professional and even harder to make his mark as his own man on this toughest of competitive sports.

His rise up the ranks has been meteoric, with top 15 finishes in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in 2010, but his attitude to his chosen profession has remained undimmed. Honest, eloquent and passionate about how the cycling world should be, Nicolas has gained acclaim and a devoted fan following for his Tour diaries serialised in the... Read More

Life, Death and Hurling

As a two-time All-Ireland winner with Offaly in the 1990s, and as RTE’s co-commentator for the All-Ireland Hurling Championship for the last decade, Michael Duignan is one of the most respected individuals in Irish sport.

Michael Duignan’s autobiography tells two incredible stories.

One is the story of a young man who devoted the best years of his teenage and adult life to becoming a champion on the hurling fields.

The second story presents this man’s wife battling an aggressive form of cancer for eight years of her life, showing incredible courage and humour and passion for life, before... Read More

One Hell of a Ride

Paul Carberry is gifted, fearless and brutally honest. He has ridden over 1,500 winners in his 20-year professional career. When he won the 1999 Aintree Grand National on Bobbjo, a horse trained by his father Tommy, he was the first Irish jockey to win the race in 24 years. The last Irishman to win the race was his father Tommy who won on L'Escargot in 1975, which was trained by Paul's grandfather Dan Moore. 

Paul Carberry, his sister Nina Carberry, brother Philip and father Tommy have all ridden winners of the Irish Grand National, a feat that will surely never be matched.  But that... Read More

Without a Shadow of a Doubt

Joe Kernan is one of the most respected, and successful, individuals in the GAA and has met with triumph as a player and manager with his native Armagh over an incredible 40 years’ period.

Married, with five sons, Joe has lived in the famous town of Crossmaglen, which during the period of The Troubles was controversially forced to share its GAA grounds with the British Army for 25 years, all his life.

Despite this, Joe Kernan led Crossmaglen to the first of three historic All-Ireland titles in 1997, and furthered his reputation as one of the supreme managers and motivators in the GAA when he... Read More