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 succumbing to her illness in September 2009.
When Edel Duignan died, she left behind a husband and two sons, Brian and Sean.
‘Life, Death & Hurling’ is an honest, engaging, raw, and inspirational story, in which Michael Duignan examines:
- His marriage to Edel
- is failures and successes as a husband
- The emotional roller-coaster which threatened to destroy his life in the months before, and the year after, Edel’s passing
- His socialising, his anger, and the violence which became part and parcel of his life
- The turning point, which has allowed him to control his life, and continue that life on a whole new journey with his two sons
Michael Duignan’s autobiography affords sports fans the opportunity to see, up close, that what happens on the field of play is not really a matter of ‘life and death’ – as so many of the outstanding managers in world sport insist it to be!
