he was also dismissed by the team manager, Mick McCarthy. Niall Quinn book Humphries was the ghost writer of Irish football player Niall Quinn's autobiography, Niall Quinn – The Autobiography, published in 2002. It won the Best Autobiography category in the inaugural British Sports Book Awards, and was nominated for a William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. The book is not structured chronologically, but rather in the context of Quinn's career swansong, the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Gaelic games Humphries volunteered at a North Dublin Gaelic games club. His first book, Green Fields: Gaelic Sport in Ireland, analysed the importance of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, a recurring theme of his work. His book Dublin V Kerry gave an account of historic clashes between the two dominant teams in Gaelic football of the mid- to late-1970s. Collaboration with Donal Óg Cusack Humphries co-wrote Come What May, the autobiography of the openly gay hurler Donal Óg Cusack. It won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year. Tony Kenny, PR Manager for William Hill, said at the time: "Donal Og's book is an excellently told story of ... someone who wasn't afraid to put themselves forward as a role model to many in sport and life not just in Ireland but across the world." Sexual abuse conviction In 2011, Humphries's child sex abuse came to light when his daughter discovered messages of a sexual nature on an old mobile phone of Humphries; the messages were exchanged between Humphries and a 14-year-old girl with an eating disorder who played at the North Dublin Gaelic games club with which Humphries volunteered. This led to a police investigation that eventually revealed that Humphries had sent the girl thousands of sexually-explicit texts before going on to meet her for sexual acts. Humphries subsequently spent a year in a psychiatric facility, before being arrested in September 2012. He was charged in March 2014. He had not written for The Irish Times since 2011, but was formally suspended after being charged. In March 2017, Humphries pleaded guilty to two counts of defilement of a child and four counts of inviting a child to participate in a sexually explicit, obscene or indecent act. The Irish Times terminated his employment after his guilty plea. Reporting restrictions on the case had been in place until June 2017; they were lifted after three