Alright Sort of the Year - 2017

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Dan Shanahan went up a lot in my estimation yesterday. I saw him going around to the Galway lads congratulating them when he was clearly hurting.

I found out that later on during one his interviews, Tony Keady’s family passed by. Dan stopped the interview to speak to them.

Afterwards he said: "Let’s be honest, they lost a husband and a father, a pure and utter gentleman, one of the great Galway stars and that man won’t get up in the morning.

“Our lads will all get up in the morning. Tony was looking down on them today and I have no doubt they did it for Tony.”

Nice touch :clap:

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I have my doubts about this tbh

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Of course you do; you’re seething. It’ll pass.

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Dan is one of the great alright sorts of our association

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I know from personal experience and can confirm that Dan Shanahan is an absolute sound man and a thoroughly alright sort

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Michael Donoghue. I got a little something in my eye as he met his father when they returned to Galway.

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+1.

Comes across as a thoroughly alright sort & made all the right calls at the right times yesterday.

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Here’s the pic

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Joseph Cooney
spoke like a top class young man last night on the Sunday Game just like his father

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Geroid McInerney was the poster boy this year but Cooney was the one who improved the most for me. Thought he was a good hurler but was wanting for pace & workrate.
By fuck did he prove me wrong this year, came on a tonne & really put in a shift yesterday.

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You’d literally need to have no heart to respond emotionally to that picture. I can be a hard cunt with zero empathy to most of life’s events, but fuck me. That picture is the essence of love

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The RTE interview with Donoghue himself at the time is powerful.

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The ability of the Irish male to connect with his father is a difficult one, as no doubt many of us can attest to. From my own experience, sport has always been that one bridge we could both come half way across. That picture breaks me for that very reason. No words are needed in that moment, a tsunami of emotion conveyed with just an embrace, with just a look.

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clichéd nonsense

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Sure it is, you fucking prick.

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bro, if you are emotionally stunted fair enough but don’t you don’t speak for us all

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I am incredibly emotionally stunted. Why else would I be here?

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Horse tips

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I have that thread on ignore. I don’t trust those weird bastards.

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GRA spokesperson John O’Keeffe.

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