Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward »

Bob Halloran is the weekend news and sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a former ESPN anchor and columnist for espn.com. Halloran has worked as a news and sports anchor in New England for over twenty years, and he writes a weekly column for the Boston Metro newspaper. He is also the author of Breakdown: A Season of Gang Warfare, High School Football, and the Coach Who Policed the Streets (Lyons Press, forthcoming). 

Irish Thunder is about a boxer from a boxing family and a boxing town, but it is not a boxing book. It is about the human spirit, blind loyalty, self-preservation and self-destruction. Micky’s dramatic victories inside the ring are recounted in detail, but it is his victory outside the ring that will leave the reader inspired.