This book provides profiles of Clare's most famous sons and daughters."Where Clare Leads" will profile leading personalities in a range of disciplines - incorporating sport, arts, business, crime and broadcasting - and people who are embroiled in a number of controversies.These include the following: the 2001 World Rugby Player of the Year; the captain of Munster's 2006 Heineken Cup victory; both the manager and captain of Clare's 1995 and 1997 All-Ireland hurling winning teams; the trainer of the 2006 Grand National winner; ITV's leading sports broadcaster; the person accused of committing the UK's biggest VAT fraud scam, worth GBP 162m; a musician who made the best-selling trad album ever in 1991; a six-times British champion jockey who is currently being charged with race-fixing; and, Ireland's most controversial female writer.The profiles include: Ger Loughnane; Brian Lohan; Keith Wood; Tom Morrissey; Martin Brassil; Michael D. Higgins; Anthony Daly; Tony Griffin; Anthony Foley; Kevin Sheedy; Sharon Shannon; Mick O'Dea (Artist); Jamesie O'Connor; Fr Harry Bohan; Marcus Horan; Kieran Fallon (Horseracing); Maura O'Connell (Music); and, Bernard Lynch.
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Richard Fitzpatrick, originally from Clare, graduated from UCC in 1995 with a BA and worked for a time in San Francisco at the San Francisco Observer and The Irish Press (San Francisco). He completed a Masters in History in Edinburgh University in 1997 and worked as a features writer and assistant editor at Tandem Magazine and World Magazine in Toronto then as a technology journalist with The Sunday Tribune, 2000-2004. He now works as features writer and arts correspondent with The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent and The Sunday Times.
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