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Game of Throw-Ins

By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Narrated by: Rory Nolan
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Brought to you by Penguin.

I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father of five with an expanding waistline who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call life.

My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936.

I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no-one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realise that it wasn't enough.

I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League.

Or die trying.

©2020 Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (P)2020 Penguin Audio Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy

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Critic reviews

"Ireland's finest comic creation since Father Ted." (Hot Press)

"Hides a heart of darkness beneath the layers of craic and great gas and great story-telling and human warmth. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is Ireland!" (Irish Times)

"A cracking and hilariously witty read." (Irish Independent)
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Hil-air. Laugh out loud funny. Has a few plot twists in there too. I listened to some of the newer releases before this, but it's still worth going back to revisit these.

Hil-air. Laugh out loud funny.

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Never laughed out loud so much at a book in my life well worth the read are listen in my case. Narrator done a spectacular job

Hilarious

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Just brilliant...laughed till I had tears. Absolutely superb and what a great way to get through a pandemic. Can't praise highly enough.

Loved loved loved every minute

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Excellent narration as always, i just can't get enough! Throughly enjoy Rihanna Brogans hybrid accent!

laugh out loud book!

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