Out of Control: How My Addiction Almost Killed Me

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Daddy had to get a couple of safes put into the house, but that wasn’t enough of a deterrent for me.

CATHAL McCarron has told of being questioned by gardaí over his involvement with a 15-year-old girl through Tinder. Describing his girlfriend, McCarron said: "She means the world to me but, like most men, I love looking at beautiful women. It wasn’t a move I had learned from MMA; it was more a form of protection, an impulse reaction after finding myself grappling with McGuckin on the deck. I could have run to the newspapers as well with my own story, to tell of the sledging I had to put up with. When the video went viral, some of those forums were laced with comments from gay men about how much they wanted to have sex with me.Niall Morgan charged from his goal in frustration at McKinless’ actions and started pulling him up off the ground. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the Derry manager Damian Barton coming across, plumes of smoke billowing from his ears. With the teams due to meet in the league and the championship, maybe Derry were already thinking: ‘McCarron can be targeted now. I was ten or eleven when I first began to notice how much damage their relationship was doing to us all.

DB: To me it's a book about addiction, more so than a sports book, with a couple of personal life hooks. I wanted to show people I am just a normal person who had a good upbringing and my parents raised me well, with manners, the right way to be brought up. I completely respect the lesbian and gay community, because I really appreciated their messages of support when so many others wanted to bury me. Oisín McConville was the first GAA figure to go public with a gambling problem when he laid himself bare in his harrowing autobiography 'The Gambler'. He went on to say that: "All I'm going to say is I was fully investigated by the law of Ireland and there was no prosecution.The aim for the book was to show what gambling can do, to see how bad it can get, (for) somebody who is in that real bad place, through addiction or depression or a low, low place. 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. The case resumed yesterday/today but the Dromore and Tyrone corner-back was excused from having to attend.

I used to justify it on the basis that, given it was Daddy’s money, I had an entitlement to some of it.He can say he was defending his player, but his players should be big enough to fight their own battles.