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Some schoolkids have got 150 GAA greats to share their biggest regrets and it's all in one brilliant book

With Christmas just around the corner, books will be on many a shopping list and there's one you ...



Some schoolkids have got 150 G...
Football

Some schoolkids have got 150 GAA greats to share their biggest regrets and it's all in one brilliant book

With Christmas just around the corner, books will be on many a shopping list and there's one you should definitely consider.

It's called The Scrapbook of Regrets, featuring 150 legends of Gaelic football, and it was put together by the enterprising pupils at St Hughes NS in Leitrim.

Off The Ball's Colm 'Wooly' Parkinson was one of the people who shared their sporting regrets and he can't recommend the book highly enough: 

 

 

What's more, the pupils at St Hughes NS, who came up with the idea, sent Wooly this letter explaining how purchasing the book will help their school:

 

 

As it says in the letter, all profits will go to improving the sports facilities at the school. 

Truly excellent stuff from all involved and you can find more details right here

And if you're wondering what regrets Wooly included in the book from his Laois days, they're on Page 19 and one is: "Getting injured in the first round of the Leinster championship in 2003 and missing most of the Laois' historic run to the Leinster title":

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