The captivating book that has the GAA world talking
Last week one of the local papers ran an extract from Declan Bogue’s This Is Our Year: The Inside Story of A Football Championship in which All Star wing back Kevin Cassidy detailed some of the shortcomings of John Joe Doherty’s management. By the time Cassidy landed back on Saturday morning for the Gweedore launch of the book after a week in New York, he’d learned one of Doherty’s selectors, Tony Boyle, had issued a statement defending Doherty whileDoherty’s successor, Jim McGuinness, called a team meeting to instruct his players to boycott the launch and refuse to talk to the media for the upcoming season.
While that furore couldn’t spoil the resultant launch — with Joe Brolly as the guest speaker, it was hardly going to be anything else but a serious night’s craic — it was unfortunate nonetheless.
