Philip O'Connor

Haidar Hajdari

Malik är sjutton år och har redan hunnit göra allsvensk debut för sitt lag Svea United. Karriären verkar gå spikrakt uppåt. Men på hemmaplan är det tuffare. Han mamma är sjuk och har inte råd att betala hyran. Han behöver pengar, NU, men fotbollskontraktet dröjer. Men så dyker chansen upp. En barndomskompis som hamnat på glid erbjuder Malik riktigt mycket pengar för att medvetet missa en straff i nästa match. Och det är snabba pengar... Frågan är om Malik är beredd att ta emot en muta, och riskera hela sin karriär? Vad ska Malik göra när allt står på spel?

När allt står på spel

'This story is not about sport alone. This is a story about what Irish emigrants abroad have achieved despite a lack of resources, despite still living in the shadow of our neighbour across the water, and despite being weighed down by the stupidity of some of the decisions made by our politicians. Even today none of us takes the decision lightly to leave our family and friends and go and try our hand in another country. But if we do ... thanks to those who have gone before us, there is often a community ready and waiting to help us out on our arrival ... You will find new friends and team mates who will do everything they can to support you. It won't exactly be the same as your home parish -- nothing ever could be. But what you can do is band together with these people to build something new and vibrant that you can all be proud of -- a parish far from home.' From the Preface All over Europe, Irish ex-pats are playing Gaelic football, sometimes along with locals or with other ex-pats from Australia and America. A whole network of GAA clubs has sprung up across the continent and they even have their own administrative structure, the European County Board, affiliated to the GAA. Philip O'Connor's marvellous book is an account of one year in the life of one player and one club in one country. You wouldn't normally associate the GAA with Sweden or with continental Europe generally but it's there, wherever there are Irish exiles to nurture it -- in parishes far from home.

How Gaelic Football Brought the Irish in Stockholm Together

A Parish Far from Home

David A. Isenberg

Philip G. Conaghan

This handbook provides a comprehensive insight into how imaging techniques should be applied to particular clinical problems and how the results can be used to determine the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions.

Musculoskeletal Imaging

Diseases of the joints and surrounding tissues cannot be visualised without the help of imaging techniques. These range from x-rays (which have been available for over 100 years) to the highly sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging scanning. The variety of imaging techniques and indeed the quality of these images has improved radically in the past decade and this book attempts to capture the way in which rheumatologists and their colleagues can use a wide variety of techniques to analyse musculoskeletal diseases which are known to exist. This handbook provides the reader with an insight into both which imaging techniques should be applied to particular clinical problems and how the results can be used to determine the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions. It is extensively illustrated with examples of the various imaging techniques and joints to aid understanding, and is organised by anatomical region and specific musculoskeletal disorder to allow easy access to information.

Andrew Grainger

The 9 chapters in this book have been selected from the contents of the Musculoskeletal System section in Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 6e. These chapters provide a succinct up-to-date overview of current imaging techniques and their clinical applications in daily practice and it is hoped that with this concise format the user will quickly grasp the fundamentals they need to know. Throughout these chapters, the relative merits of different imaging investigations are described, variations are discussed and recent imaging advances are detailed. Please note that imaging techniques of the spine are considered in the separate section "The Spine" in Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 6e.

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