Unglamorous tale gets a low-key airing

THEY say everyone has a book in them. Paddy Coyne dragged it out kicking and screaming.

Unglamorous tale gets a low-key airing

Unemployment arrives at the door with plenty of baggage. Lots of us know it all too well these days. For the 35-year-old, Coyne, opportunity knocked too, however.

The north Tipperary man no longer filled his days on the floor at a factory. Instead he cracked open his laptop and wrote his first novel The Drinker with a Hurling Problem. When no-one would publish it, he did so himself.

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