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Rucks, Mauls & Gaelic Football
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION…MOSS KEANE’S NO 1 BESTSELLER…
Moss Keane with Billy Keane

“The phrase is overused but Moss Keane defines it – he is a living legend. Funny and wise, he is admired throughout the rugby world for his determination as a player, and for his decency as a man.”
- Alan English

The Sunday Times
“Moss writes as he played – with total honesty. I can still see him breaking away from a loose scrum under the West Stand and surging towards the Havelock Square end. [As] the Evening Press said: ‘He handed off two Scots and left them spinning in the turf, rolling stones that gathered no Moss’. His book will keep you up beyond your normal bedtime. How would I sum up my old neighbour across the Brown Flesk? He is a man of few airs and many graces.”
- Con Houlihan

“…the father figure of the second row after the retirement of Willie John McBride his record speaks for itself…in his first year on the Irish team he helped the country to their first International Championship success since 1951, and the only one in 30 years.”
- Irish Independent

“Moss just go out and cause mayhem. Disrupt their lineout. Stop them getting quick ball. Stand up for yourself and your team. Kerrymen have more All-Irelands than anyone else – you’re afraid of no one. Kerry are the All Blacks of Ireland. That’s why we picked you.”
- Noel Murphy, Munster Coach

In this extraordinary life story Moss Keane tells the honest account of how an awkward boy who couldn’t get onto his school team became the rugby icon who played his 50th Cap for Ireland in Twickenham.
From Ireland’s 1974 International Championship win, the unforgettable Munster defeat of the All Blacks in 1978, Lansdowne FC victories, the Lions Tour and Ireland’s Triple Crown triumph in ‘82, to a near-death experience at the hands of a vicious mugger, volunteering in Calcutta with GOAL and trying to master golf.

Now in paperback Rucks, Mauls and Gaelic Football reveals that for a giant of a man there’s more to Moss Keane than meets the eye!