A READING by author Paul Howard from the latest and last book in the epic Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series took place last week at the International Rugby Experience.
It’s the final whistle for one of the biggest legends of them all as author Paul Howard’s latest book, Don’t Look Back in Ongar, about South County Dublin “Ledge” Ross O’Carroll Kelly, will be the last of 24 Ross novels – all of which have been number 1 best sellers, selling over a million copies.
There was a chance to hear the author read from the latest – and final – instalment in an iconic rugby setting, the sixth floor Legends Gallery of the International Rugby Experience.
Paul Howard is an author, journalist, and comedy writer best known as the creator of the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series, has won a record four Irish Book Awards and had a children’s number one bestseller in Ireland in 2019 with the first of the Gordon’s Game series, written with co-author former rugby international Gordon D’Arcy.
Don’t Look Back in Ongar
It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General…
“I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it?
“I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear annihilation.
“And if that wasn’t bad enough, my teenage daughter was in love again. My sister-in-law was about to give birth to a baby that was possibly mine. And Castlerock College was about to go – I can’t even say the word – co-ed.”
The sold out reading took place on Thursday August 29 at the International Rugby Experience.
