'I was betting on reserve teams in Turkey': All-Ireland winner lost £68,000 in one day through gambling addiction

McGurk lost his marriage, home, and freedom through a crippling addiction that saw him defraud his employers of more than £500,000 to feed his gambling.

Derry All-Ireland winner Johnny McGurk lost £68,000 in one day through a gambling addiction that saw him eventually spend almost six months in prison.

In a frank interview with Declan Bogue published in Saturday's Examiner Sport, McGurk, who won an All-Ireland medal 25 years ago this weekend, tells how he lost his marriage, home, and freedom through a crippling addiction that saw him defraud his employers of more than £500,000 to feed his gambling.