The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA (Hardcover)


Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of lad obsessed with the GAA calendar, his local club and county team above everything else. This hilarious guide to the GAA covers it all: bleep tests; post-game hangovers; forty-way WhatsApp conversations; that lad always doing his hamstring; fair-weather Dub supporters; old men who've umpired every parish game since the Civil War; Marty Morrissey's forehead; ham sandwiches; dirty corner-backs; more hangovers; impenetrable Kerry accents; weight training followed by ten pints; pretending to understand tactics; lobbing it up to the big lad; prima donna corner forwards... Infinitely recognisable and laugh-out-loud funny, it's the perfect gift for GAA fans. 'A must read for all GAA fans' - Steven McDonnell, former Armagh Footballer 'Haven't put this book down all evening' -Marc O Se, Kerry Footballer

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Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of lad obsessed with the GAA calendar, his local club and county team above everything else. This hilarious guide to the GAA covers it all: bleep tests; post-game hangovers; forty-way WhatsApp conversations; that lad always doing his hamstring; fair-weather Dub supporters; old men who've umpired every parish game since the Civil War; Marty Morrissey's forehead; ham sandwiches; dirty corner-backs; more hangovers; impenetrable Kerry accents; weight training followed by ten pints; pretending to understand tactics; lobbing it up to the big lad; prima donna corner forwards... Infinitely recognisable and laugh-out-loud funny, it's the perfect gift for GAA fans. 'A must read for all GAA fans' - Steven McDonnell, former Armagh Footballer 'Haven't put this book down all evening' -Marc O Se, Kerry Footballer

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Product Details

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Imprint

Gill Books

Country of origin

Ireland

Release date

October 2017

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Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days

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Dimensions

204 x 137 x 19mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

256

ISBN-13

978-0-7171-7925-1

Barcode

9780717179251

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LSN

0-7171-7925-7



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