Summary
Yesterday, in the first extracts from Donal Og Cusack's searingly frank and moving autobiography, the Cork hurling goalkeeper revealed how - and why - he became the country's first elite sportsman to come out as gay. The three times All-Ireland hero told with great candour how, as he was enjoying a holiday with his team-mates in South Africa, his sister rang to report rumours back home of his sexuality. Anxious his loving, supportive parents and siblings heard the truth from him, Donal Og flew thousands of miles to tell them he was gay.
He told of his mother's acceptance and his father's initial struggle to come to terms with the news, steeped as he was in the blood-and-bandage world of Cork GAA and the close-knit he-man's world of Cloyne, where hurling is a religion and local legend Christy Ring is a god.See the full content of this document
Extract
Sean Og and I Are Like Brothers Now ; Yesterday, with Unf Linching Honesty in the Irish Mail On Sunday, Donal Og Cusack Revealed He Is Gay. Today, in the Second Part of His Gripping Life Story, He Reveals the Support He Got From His Cork Team-Mates [Eire Region]
In his autobiography Come What May, serialised yesterday in the Irish Mail on Sunday and this week in the Irish Daily Mail, he also reignites the explosive row over players' rights.
Today, in the second part of this unmissable series, Donal Og explains how his teammates supported him after he came out to them - although it was hardly plain sailing...SEAN OG sensed that there was something wrong. So he rang me in my hotel room. 'I don't know now and it might be none of my business but there is something up. Will you come down an...See the full content of this document
