Munster’s Cup win in line for Sports Book of Year award

MUNSTER’s Heineken Cup victory looms large in the longlist of entries for the 2006 Boylesports Irish Sports Book of the Year Award.

There are 15 entries on the long list covering sporting interests from GAA, rugby, athletics, soccer, golf, and horse racing. Amongst the GAA entries is Tom Humphries’ ‘Dublin v Kerry’, which chronicles the football rivalry between the two counties which helped to shape modern Irish sport.

Sean Boylan’s biography, ‘The Will to Win’, Ronnie Bellew’s ‘GAA: The Glory Years’, Finbarr McCarthy’s ‘Great GAA Moments 2006’ and Desmond Fahy’s ‘Death on a Country Road’, the story of two Derry fans who were murdered on their way home from Croke Park are also among the GAA-related entries.