Playing in the Dark. Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness with Rosie Dunn

By Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness and Siobhan Kennedy-McGuiness

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland. He'd launched the controversial pirate radio show Radio Dublin from his cramped living room in Inchicore and for youngsters everywhere in Ireland he was a public hero.

But there was a terrible side to this trendy 'granddaddy of Irish radio' that no one could ever have imagined. When Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness first ventured into Cooke's garage to her seven-year-old eyes it was like an Aladdin's cave. Filled with broadcasting equipment it became a playground for her and her friends. And for Cooke it became a place he could lure his unsuspecting victims.

Cooke's abuse was calculated and terrifying. Siobhan suffered in silence for years. Then one day almost twenty years later she saw the man who had haunted her life holding the hands of two wide-eyed children. In their faces she recognised her own fear. Finally she knew she had to reveal Cooke for the monster he really was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099519941
• ISBN13: 9780099519942
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.7" x 4.3"