Out of Control: How My Addiction Almost Killed Me

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The Tyrone GAA player said he did not realise the girl was underage when they arranged to meet using the mobile dating app. McCarron does not exactly present himself as a sympathetic figure, and the lengthy descriptions of matches he played in becomes somewhat tedious. On the bad days, when the wallet was as thin as a piece of paper, I’d leave it rooted deep in my pocket. He met with her last year despite being in a relationship with his current girlfriend, Niamh Delahunt, who is now pregnant with their child.

The footballer said he thought the girl was at least 19 and only realised her true age when contacted by her father. DB: Tyrone winning an Ulster title this year, with you playing a starring role, is a rare splash of colour in a very dark book. After a year out of the inter-county game with Tyrone in 2014, McCarron made a remarkable recovery in 2015, ending the season with an All-Star nomination.The country is full of those that enjoy seeing another man down and in times like these we are reminded of the George Bernard Shaw quote, 'Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. There was a lot of resentment inside me that I didn’t have the happy family life that all my friends appeared to have. I have visited it a few times, have to do it for myself to get back playing football, a normal way of life. It would make Daddy even angrier, but it was our only way of trying to stop something which we were ultimately powerless to do. He turned up and was brilliant with the kids, who were delighted to be guided by a player they watch marking the best forwards in the game.

McCarron met the girl last year despite being in a relationship with his current girlfriend, who is now pregnant with their child. Interesting memoir of a young Irish professional footballer with a bad gambling addition, so bad he stole, went without food to feed his addiction. Daddy had to get a couple of safes put into the house, but that wasn’t enough of a deterrent for me.McCarron took to Twitter on Thursday to claim that his appearance would not be in contravention to this. While the world looked on in awe at a man who had scored the decisive goal in an All-Ireland final and entered forever into the folklore of the GAA, in his personal life he was drowning. He also asked the court to note that the footballer was recovering from a serious gambling addiction.

Cathal McCarron is a Tyrone footballer, talented enough to be nominated for an All-Star twice in the last three years. The scam was easier to conceal, and prolong, when my mother wasn’t around home any more, and had less reason to suspect the scam.

I could have run to the newspapers as well with my own story, to tell of the sledging I had to put up with. The saddest thing of all is that she could walk past me in the street and I wouldn't recognise her," he said.

Pleading for leniency, Mr Connolly described the Temple Bar incident as the “last speed bump in his situation” and he added that his client has received support from his family and the GAA.For me, for what I went through and how bad a place it was, I can honestly say that words can't describe how bad a place it was. An uncle of my father left him a house in Tummery, just outside Dromore, off the main Omagh to Enniskillen road. I used to justify it on the basis that, given it was Daddy’s money, I had an entitlement to some of it. The Kildare dad, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said his daughter is on strong medication and struggles to sleep following her meeting with the Tyrone player in October 2015.