The Club: Hunger, Conflict and Heartbreak - an Extraordinary Year in the Life of a GAA Club

• Author: Christy O'Connor
• ISBN: 9780141399669
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2011
• Format: Paperback
• Condition: Used - Very Good

This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.