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“Faster Higher Stronger – A History of Ireland’s Olympians” is one of 23 books in this year’s long list for the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year Award to be announced in December.

This year, you can vote for the book of your choice – go to www.irishsportsbookoftheyear.com and click on “voting”. The book that receives the highest number of public votes will be the public choice and it will be added to the votes of the eleven judges in determining the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year for 2008.

This year’s judging panel includes RTE rugby pundit and Newstalk presenter George Hook, RTE’s Eamon Dunphy, Today FM and TV3 presenter Matt Cooper and Setanta Sports’ Paul Dempsey.

William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008 – Long List

• The Irishman Who Ran for England by Jim Hogan
• Foul Play by Joe Humphries
• Dick Fitzgerald: King in a Kingdom of Kings by Tom Looney
• Trappatoni – A Life in Football by Egon Theiner
• Crashed and Byrned by Tommy Byrne with Mark Hughes
• Sonia – My Story by Sonia O’Sullivan with Tom Humphries
• Final Whistle – The Paddy Russell Story by Paddy Russell with Jackie Cahill
• House of Pain – Through the Rooms of Mayo Football by Keith Duggan
• Chairman of the Boards Master of the Mile by Eamonn Coghlan
• My Autobiography by Ronan O’Gara
• The Best of the West – GAA greats of Connacht by John Scally
• Sport and Society in Victorian Ireland by Tom Hunt
• Mouse Morris – His Extraordinary Racing Life by Declan Colley
• Three Kings – The Battle for Hurling Supremacy by Ralph Riegel
• Hurling – The Warrior Game by Diarmuid O’Flynn
• Fast, Higher, Stronger by Lindie Naughton and Johnny Watterson
• The Grand National – The Irish at Aintree by Anne Holland
• Green Wickets – Ireland’s Adventures at the 2007 Cricket World Cup by Ed Leahy
• Ireland’s Olympians – Beijing and Beyond by Niall O’Flynn
• Touching Greatness by Dermot Gillecce
• Better than Sex by Mick Fitzgerald with Donn McClean
• Reading the Green – The Inside Line on the Irish in the Ryder Cup by PJ Browne
• Axel, A Memoir by Anthony Foley