'Lansdowne Road: the Stadium, the Matches, the Greatest Days' has been nominated for a 2nd book award. In addition to the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year Awards (below), the book is also one of the books nominated for the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards. Readers can vote at the following link:

http://www.irishbookawards.ie/PublicVote.aspx

Meanwhile, the contenders for this year's William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year were announced at the end of Octoner, and they include Cover Point contributor Ger Siggins.  There are 25 books in total on the long list for the award, which includes some of the biggest names in Irish sport.

In "Lansdowne Road: the Stadium, the Matches, the Greatest Days", Gerard Siggins and Malachy Clerkin detail  the history of the famous arena and some of the most memorable moments since it opened in 1873.  Readers of this website will know how important a part cricket played in the early development of the ground.

Ger Siggins is Assistant Editor of the Sunday Tribune, where he has written about cricket for a quarter of a century. He has been a contributor to Cover Point since its earliest days.

'Raiders of the Caribbean', his collaboration with Trent Johnston on the World Cup, was shortlisted for two book awards in 2007.

You can vote for your favourite (Wiiliam Hill) Irish sports book of the year on the web page below:

http://www.irishsportsbookoftheyear.com/Voting/123