Heartfelt thanks to the team of very talented people who, every year for almost twenty years now, have helped turn the misadventures of a South Dublin rugby jock into books of which I am enormously proud. Special thanks to my editor Rachel Pierce, my agent Faith O’Grady, the artist Alan Clarke, as well as Michael McLoughlin, Patricia Deevy, Cliona Lewis, Patricia McVeigh, Brian Walker, Aimée Johnston and all the staff at Penguin Ireland. Thanks to my father, David, and my brothers, Mark, Vincent and Richard. And thanks most of all to my very wonderful wife, Mary.