He turned up and was brilliant with the kids, who were delighted to be guided by a player they watch marking the best forwards in the game.

McCarron described the relief as "overpowering" when he was told in July that the DPP would not be pursuing the matter as there was 'no case to answer'. The solicitor added that McCarron is in a relationship and his partner is expecting a child and he is focussed on sport, work and his family. I was an arrogant bastard, but I didn’t see myself in that light because I wasn’t living in the real world to be able to make the distinction between arrogance and reality.I’d love to leave football in good enough shape that I could give MMA a rattle for a year or two, to see how far I could push it. We worked together in a previous job and while our exchanges could be robust, strong opinions and a certain license to exchange them were only welcomed in my view. McCarron assumed he would appear in pornography with women, and was initially against taking part in gay pornography. In the candid book he breaks his silence about his struggles over the years with an addiction to gambling.

I suppose, at 16 years of age I placed my first bet and I'd say within two years, I was a chronic compulsive gambler and it took off from there. The court heard the 28-year-old, from Tummery Road, Dromore, Omagh, who also has three Ulster title medals, has been nominated for the 2016 All-Star football awards. I was trying to show what gambling had done to my life and for the people that had seen all these things and read all these headlines, but did not know who I was.

We have been in plenty of scrapes over the years and you never saw Harte stuck in the middle of any of them.

The saddest thing of all is that she could walk past me in the street and I wouldn't recognise her," he said. If it transpires that he gets airtime and publicity after I gave my side of the story I would question the depths they would stoop to. It was farmland at the end of a lane, but my father reconstructed the house and built a yard for oil tanks to expand his business.

My boss at the time, Adrian O’Neill, a good Dromore football man, tried to talk some sense into me one day. It came to this situation where this company said, 'look, there's no money in doing pornography with a woman. Cathal McCarron: At the start, the feedback when it came out that I was doing a book, some people were asking: what I was doing it for?