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Podcast: The Second Captains Podcast
Episode: Taking Up Hurling At 42 - Searching For Perfect Failure Or Having A Midlife Crisis?
Description: What if, at 42 years of age, having spent your entire life playing Gaelic football, you were to take up one of the fastest sports in the world, one that most experts say you need to take up before the age of 7 or 8 if youβre to master the basics, and then write a book about it? Welcome to the live show launch of Murph's second book, the brilliant Old Parish: Notes On Hurling.Murph joined Old Parish, a club in the West Waterford Gaeltacht where his father is from, and over the course of a summer fi...