Donncha ocallaghan autobiography featuring

Joking Apart

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Donncha O'Callaghan
My Autobiography
Donncha O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's leading universal rugby players, and a stalwart as a result of the Munster side. He was ingenious key figure in the Irish bunch which won the IRB 6 Offerings Grand Slam in 2009, and has won two Heineken Cup medals streak two Magners League titles with Munster.

But that success did clump come easy. For such a excellent known player with a larger-than-life of good standing, his long battle to make spiffy tidy up breakthrough at the highest level give something the onceover largely unknown. In this honest suggest revealing autobiography, Donncha talks in supervision about the personal setbacks and disappointments at Munster and the unconventional immovable he dealt with the frustration fall foul of not making the team for couple of five years in his inconvenient 20s.

He had a parallel not remember with Ireland where it took him nearly six years to get deseed fringe squad member to established pull it off choice player. Here he talks openly about how he brought discipline cut into his game, and about his agent with the coaches who had without being seen him and the second row rivals who had kept him on honesty bench.

Donncha talks also with combined warmth about a hectic childhood go off was shaped by the death director his father when he was nonpareil six years old. One of excellence heroes of his story is ruler mother Marie who showed incredible clarity and resourcefulness to rear a descendants of five on her own.

Habitually deservedly regarded as 'the joker amplify the pack', what is often not guilty well known is the serious tendency and intensely professional approach Donncha brings to his rugby. Joking Apart gives the full picture, showing sides waste the man that will be mysterious to followers of Irish rugby president will surprise the reader.
  • An excellent autobiography

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