'Four Kings' launch tonight

The launch of 'Four Kings: Paddy 'Hands' O'Brien, Jack Quinn, Mick Lyons, Darren Fay and 7 All-Ireland Triumphs'  takes place in the Knightsbrook Hotel, Trim, tonight (Tuesday) at 7.30pm. 

The highlight of the evening will be an historic Q and A with the 'Four Kings' of Meath football - Paddy 'Hands' O'Brien, Jack Quinn, Mick Lyons and Darren Fay. During which they will tell their re-tell their stories and memories from a half a century when we took seven All-Ireland titles into our hands.

The book tells the story of four young men who once dreamed of winning an All-Ireland Four grown men who had the No 3 shirt thrust upon them, four men who span Meath’s seven All-Ireland triumphs, four of Meath’s greatest ever footballers who became 'Kings'.

This is the story of Paddy ‘Hands’ O’Brien, Jack Quinn, Mick Lyons and Darren Fay - and the golden era of Meath football.

Four Kings takes in the glory years of 1949, 1954, 1967, 1987, 1988, 1996 and 1999, and the lives of the four men who shared the same No 3 jersey for exactly half a century.

It’s a story that leads from Croke Park to Wembley Stadium, from the Polo Grounds in New York to a pioneering tour of Australia. That ranged from singing songs with Hollywood actress and singer, Marlene Dietrich to swapping small talk with Charlie Haughey on the steps of the Hogan Stand.

O’Brien, Quinn, Lyons and Fay had their lives intertwine in ways they never imagined over that 50 years. On the field, they shared the same magnificent levels of courage and defiance, and natural brilliance under the most intense pressure imaginable.