A Year With the Dubs

by Daire Whelan

Beginning with the heartbreak of the semi-final defeat to Kerry in 2007, this book is a fan's story which follows the Dublin team through the barren winter of team training and a few friendlies, and onwards to their end in the 2008 championship.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2008

About the author

Daire Whelan is an award-winning writer, journalist and producer. He has written for Ireland's biggest media organisations and newspapers and his work has appeared in the Irish Times (as a former Business of Sport columnist), the Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Times, Village and Magill magazines.

Writing about society, culture and sport, he is the author of (at present) six non-fiction books:
- Haunted by Waters: A Journey into the Irish Countryside (Hachette Ireland 2021)
- The Art of Hurling, (Mercier Press 2017)
- Donal Lenihan, My Life in Rugby (Ghost-written and nominated for the Irish Sports Book of the Year; published by Transworld Ireland 2016)
- The Managers (Hachette 2013)
- A Year with the Dubs (Gill 2008)
- Who Stole Our Game? (Gill 2006)