Book description
Sportsman. Lover. Bon viviant. Cad. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is many
things to many people. But ten years after he lifted the Leinster
Schools Senior Cup, Ireland's most beloved rogue remains one of its
most misunderstood figures. His accomplishments on the rugby field -
and in the bedroom - remain the stuff of legend, but the truth about
him remains hidden by the accretion of myth.
Now, for the first time, the lid is lifted on the enigma that is
South Dublin's most eligible married man. In more than a hundred
interviews with his family and friends - those who've loved him, hated
him and slept with him - the first ever composite portrait of the
Celtic Tiger's most famous cub emerges.
From the mother who didn't want him to the father who wanted him too
much, from the friends who shared his misadventures to the women who
shared his bed - or, failing that, a back alley or bus shelter - this
searingly honest biography fills in all the blanks in the life of the
self-styled Cock of Foxrock.
Paul Howard grew up in the 1980s in South Dublin, an area bitterly
divided between the haves and the have-yachts. He has been ghost-writing
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's adventures since 1998 and, despite the vast chasm
between them in terms of looks, money and pulling power, a kind of
friendship has formed. The first time he ever called to the
O'Carroll-Kelly home, Ross's mother, Fionnuala told him just to clean
the downstairs ones today - and this time do a darned sight better job
of getting the bird shit off the one in the vestibule.
