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Front cover, top left: Henry Downey raises the Sam Maguire cup for the first time in Derry’s history. (Image courtesy of Sportsfile.) Top right: Eamonn Coleman celebrating the semi-final win over Dublin. (Image courtesy of Sportsfile.) Bottom: The starting fifteen for Derry. (Image courtesy of Danny B. O’Kane.)

Back cover: Eamonn Coleman holds the Sam Maguire aloft.

(Image courtesy of The Irish News.)

For my mother, Mary McCourt, née Coleman (Mae).

With deepest love and gratitude.

Dedicated to the memory of Molly McCourt,

Willie Mulvenna Jnr and Janine McMullan.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will be

donated to cancer charities in Ireland.

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2. ‘Youse Boys Knows Nathin’ About Futball’

3. ‘The Players is the Men’

4. Homecoming Heroes

5. Back-Room Betrayal

6. No Magic in Management

Family Matters by Gary Coleman

Afterword: Loughshore Life, a Childhood by Eamonn Coleman

Acknowledgements

FOREWORD

by Joe Brolly

When we won the All-Ireland my father painted ‘SAM 1993’ across his oil tank in the yard. Every now and again, he touches it up. When the squad or a few of us meet up, it is always there, unspoken. We don’t talk about the games, or who did what. We talk about the fun and the frolics. And we talk about Eamonn, who was the heart of the group.