And a Bang on the Ear: Reclaiming My Life After a Brain Injury

About Phil Quinlan

Phil Quinlan played every sport on TV and represented his county in cross-country twice but his life was suddenly and irreparably changed by a clash of heads playing football. Having defied the 25% chance of living odds living with a disability travelling the globe finding love Phil hopes his story is an inspirational one. Through all the hurt rage and rehabilitation trials and tribulations he's living the dream now Steve O'Rourke is a writer and former journalist. With bylines in Hot Press The42 and ESPN he has interviewed musicians politicians and Olympians. Once Ireland's only full-time NFL journalist he has always believed that sport produces the best human-interest stories and dedicated his career to bringing those stories to life. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife and two children and works in advertising. Paul Howard helps Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to write his autobiographical series largely because Ross can't really write roysh? Find out more at rossocarrollkelly.com. He is also the author of the bestselling prison expose The Joy and co-author of Celtic Warrior the autobiography of boxer Steve Collins. A former Sports Journalist of the Year Paul covered the World Cup in Japan and Korea in 2002 and the rugby World Cup in Australia in 2003. His account of the Irish soccer squad and the notorious drama in Saipan The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy Roy Keane and the Team they Built was a bestseller. Paul has also written several massively popular plays and has won the popular fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards three times for books in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.