Kicking On
| By: | Dave Hannigan |
| Publisher: | O'Brien Press Ltd |
| Published: | August 2012 |
| Categories: | Children |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Ebook |
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Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team and falls in love with GAA. When something happens in Dromtarry that changes all their lives... `With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants' place-kicker Shaun Reedy. â ¦ He's kicked it â ¦ but no, it's gone left and wideâ ¦...' Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when a mysterious visitor arrives in town; Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team - far away from the glamour, the money and the pressure that turned him off his own sport- and falls in love with the GAA. When something happens in Dromtarry that changes all their lives, they discover that it's having the guts to take a shot at goal - whatever the outcome - is what matters â ¦ `With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants' place-kicker Shaun Reedy. â ¦ He's kicked it â ¦ but no, it's gone left and wideâ ¦...' Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when a mysterious visitor arrives in town; Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team - far away from the glamour, the money and the pressure that turned him off his own sport- and falls in love with the GAA.
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