From county hurler to novelist: Meet the Co Derry teacher who wrote a novel on his phone – and launched it off a mountain

By day, Réamann Kennedy teaches physics at St Mary’s Grammar School, Magherafelt. By night, the former Derry hurler spent three years writing a novel about forgiveness, faith and the legacy of the Troubles. Now, after an unconventional book launch went viral, he’s tells Helen McGurk why he hopes The Marksman’s Gospel finds readers across Northern Ireland