Capturing the fleeting, fantastic, essence of sport: It’s all a part of The Game
Author Tadgh Coakley at the aunch of ,at Waterstones, Patrick Street, Cork. PIcture: jim Coughlan.
The book both starts and ends with the purest, most idyllic of settings. A boy with a ball and its tiny dimples, a pebble-dashed wall and a back garden containing infinite possibilities. Between those points The Game, as its subtitle outlines, takes us on a journey into the heart of sport that at times will lift your own and at others make it ache.
Its author and chief protagonist is Tadhg Coakley, that same boy with the ball in his garden back in early 1970s Ireland and now a writer of some repute which should only be enhanced after this delightful work.
