It is a journey chillingly captured in one sentence. To the loss of his family, his home, and to a jail sentence. Tony 10 brilliantly charts how Tony O’Reilly went from putting a £1 double on Patrick Kluivert to score the first goal and Holland to beat Argentina 2-1 at the 1998 World Cup to gambling €10m and stealing €1.75m from the post office he managed. Assisted by the more than capable hands of Keith Duggan, this is a large window into the man and how he changed Donegal’s football fortunes for the better.ĩ: Tony 10, Declan Lynch and Tony O’Reilly (2018, Gill) Relatively little is devoted to the spat with Kevin Cassidy, but there is mention of his differences with former assistant manager Rory Gallagher, who McGuinness hadn’t spoken to since 2014.Īnd the majority of McGuinness’ ire is reserved for the county board, who he felt sabotaged Donegal’s 2013 season when they chose to go ahead with club championship fixtures. While attending press conferences, door stepping cyclists and watching the emergence of a new generation of stars led by race favourite Chris From from Team Sky, Kimmage is in search of answers to difficult questions.However, the most compelling passages are those about the figures who he perceived did him wrong. Told against the backdrop of the fall of Lance Armstrong and the 2013 Tour de France, we follow Kimmage as he deals with his demons and his legal battles as he makes his way around the exhausting Tour de France circuit in his campervan, with his wife at the wheel. This documentary feature film brings us into the beautiful and often shocking world of professional cycling. His pursuit of cleaning up cycling has cost him some of his closet friendships and put severe pressure on his career as a journalist. He became a hate figure with many seeing him as a traitor, a snitch, and a whistle blower. Over the last 23 years, former teammates have spat in his face, described him as a failed athlete and accused him of jealousy and bitterness. His passionate stance against doping has brought a combination of admirers and enemies. Kimmage is also involved in legal wranglings with the UCI, the world cycling governing body. He is looked upon with disdain by fellow journalists and many within cycling, including former hero Lance Armstrong. Today, Kimmage is a multi award winning author and one of the most outspoken sports journalists in the muddy world of professional cycling. He was the first former cyclist to spill the beans about doping.
Within twelve months, he became a journalist and wrote his first book ‘Rough Ride’ which broke the code of omertá (silence) in cycling. But, after his third Tour de France, in 1989, he walked away, disillusioned with the sport he loved. Riding alongside World Number One, Sean Kelly, and Tour de France winner, Stephen Roche. In the mid 1980’s, Paul Kimmage was part of Ireland’s golden age of cycling.
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