Cusack parries the plaudits

A COUPLE of weeks ago, a new GAA book hit the shelves. Last Man Standing by Christy O'Connor features a series of brutally honest interviews with several of the best hurling goalkeepers in the game.

It should be made mandatory reading for every GAA fan in the country.

Not just because of its style and content, both of which are top-class, but because of what it reveals - the pain, the agony endured, the abuse they suffer at the hands of GAA fans, often, their own 'fans'.