When Helen Carr of O’Brien Press approached me to write a book in a new children’s series called Great Irish Sports Stars, I was incredibly excited. It was to be a series for the 8–12 age bracket about Irish sporting legends, beginning with two Gaelic footballers: Cora Staunton and Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper. The idea was so good I wondered why it had never been done before. If the series had been around when I was a kid, I would have …
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