Mickey Harte: ‘I am very content in my life at the minute’

Devotion is not a ‘football book’. At times, it feels like walking into the wrong room and seeing something private. An intrusion into a private world.

Mickey Harte: ‘The world changes as we go on. The world that I grew up in was a less rushed lifestyle.’ Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The opening lines of Devotion, Mickey Harte’s latest autobiography, finds him emerging in the half-light.

He rises on the dot of 6am and leaves the bedroom quietly. The way is illuminated by a light shining on a picture of his daughter Michaela. Beside their bedroom is her own, untouched since the morning she walked out of it for her wedding.