Out of Control: How My Addiction Almost Killed Me

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For that, you have to go to your meetings. I haven’t seen many people in recovery just going around and doing their own thing. You need to have help. Meetings are like my tablets: I take it once every week or once every two weeks and I need to take them. From where I was there in ’08 I didn’t see his passion drop one bit if anything it just got greater, and that was with tragedy in the middle of all that. I couldn’t speak highly enough of him as a manager and as a person. He’s first class.” It was in Athy, though, that he met Niamh, where he healed and where he intends building or buying a house in the not too distant future. Most people have read it. Some people wrote columns about it and they admitted they had not read the book. I think that's poor journalism, to be honest. How can you comment on anything when you have not read it?

DB: To me it's a book about addiction, more so than a sports book, with a couple of personal life hooks.Gda Sgt Smith said the Gaelic games star was directed on numerous occasions to calm down but when he threw his top on the ground gardai arrested him. I wouldn’t take any issue with any man earning a few bob. It’s the same with alcohol — people can drink and people can gamble and fair play to them; I can have a drink and it doesn’t bother me, but I can’t gamble and that’s the way it is. But McCarron has made significant strides in his recovery, playing a leading role in the Tyrone team's Ulster Senior Championship victory this year and training as a counsellor.

Cathal is, of course, of Irish and Celtic origin, which is why you will find that this name is most common in Ireland, a Celtic country. Credit: commons.wikimedia.org

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This wasn't just advice. He was carrying a threat from the IRA. He told me that if I didn't leave, I'd be shot. He said they were coming to the house that night to carry out their threat and shoot me," he said. Harte, McCarron feels, has had to adapt as well to the changing attitudes of footballers. With so much being put in preparing, the fun element to balance it has to be encouraged.