Eamonn Magee's life brings a whole new level to the rags to riches story

A book that was rejected by 13 separate publishers — The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee — has won the 2018 eir Sports Book of the Year award.

It came out top of a particularly high-quality short-list that included Andy Lee’s Fighter, (written with Niall Kelly) and Tony 10 by Tony O’Reilly and Declan Lynch, the story of the former’s shocking spiral into gambling addiction.