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Paul Howard is an award-winning journalist, author and creator of the cult character Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. He worked for sixteen years as a reporter, mostly for The Sunday Tribune, first in news and later as a sports writer, covering two Olympics, a World Cup and numerous major sporting events. He was named Sports Journalist of the Year in the 1998 Irish Media Awards for an investigation into eating disorders among Irish athletes and an Interview with the disgraced former sprinter, Ben Johnson. He was also shortlisted for the award in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
He is the author of several best-selling non-fiction books, including The Joy (the true story of an inmate’s life in Mountjoy Prison), The Gaffers (an account of the fractious relationship between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy) and Hostage (a book about the IRA kidnappings in the 1970s and 1980s). He also worked with Steve Collins and George Hook on their autobiographies Celtic Warrior and Time Added On.
The sixth book in the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series, Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade, won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction in 2007. The tenth novel in the series, The Oh My God Delusion, won the same award in 2010. NAMA Mia!, the eleventh book in the series, became an instant number one bestseller on publication in September 2011 and has been shortlisted for the 2011 Irish Book Awards.
Howard has also written two Ross O’Carroll-Kelly plays ­ The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, the fastest-selling play in the history of Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, and Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, which played to packed houses at the Olympia in 2010, as well as the Cork Opera House and the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.

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