Friday / Dé hAoine
Peter Bills in conversation John O’Donnell.
Peter Bills journeys around Ireland to discover what makes Irish rugby the force that it is, featuring our own club Rugby Chorcha Dhuibhne.
In this book, Triumphs, Trophies and Troubles: In Search of the Soul of Irish Rugby, award-winning international rugby writer Peter Bills seeks to take the pulse of the game at every level – schools, clubs, provinces – as well as the fast-expanding women’s game. For if rugby at grassroots level withers, the decline will affect everyone. Conas is féidir le rugbaí a fhoghlaim chun maireachtaint taobh le taobh leis an CLG?
Featuring interviews with some legendary names of Irish rugby, such as Keith Wood, Willie John McBride, Tony Ward, Bill Mulcahy, Gordon D’Arcy, Trevor Ringland, Nigel Carr and Tommy Bowe, we also hear from men and women from junior and club rugby, at clubs like Dingle, Kinsale, Monkstown, Boyne, Westport, City of Derry, Donegal Town, Omagh and Oughterard. All of them are doing stirring work behind the scenes for their local clubs and communities as Bills goes in search of the soul of Irish rugby.
