Enda Kenny and CJH did a 2-in-a-row and Bertie did 3-in-a-row.
We had two female presidents in succession
Marathon became Snickers.
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Women drink pints .
An epoch moment that .
Things that havenât happened since:
Bottleham still havenât won the league
Doon still havenât won a Limerick senior hurling championship
Mayo still havenât won an All-Ireland
Nor have Dublin hurlers despite having the financial backing of a reasonably-sized country.
Irish rugger team hasnât gotten past the quarter-finals of the âWorld Cupâ
A woman hasnât been elected Taoiseach
Curly-Wurlys havenât gotten bigger
The Cody era has turned them into a boring auld crowd
Kilkenny lost to Waterford in the Championship.
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Galway won 3-in-a-row in football.
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I watched the highlights of 65 last night on GAAGO. Only a few minutes, but in that time four occasions where forwards were dragged down and their response was getting up and swinging haymakers. Three sent off.
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Watched the same thing. Kerry were always animals.
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An elected public representative was one of the three miscreants to get the line in that 1965 final. That was the last occasion a serving Member of Parliament played in an All Ireland Final.
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John Donnellan
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Correct. He had quite an eventful time of it on All Ireland Final day throughout the three in a row run
- Captain in 1964 when his father died moments before the final whistle, sent off in the 1965
Final and somewhat surprisingly omitted from the starting line up in 1966.
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He said of Alan dukes when dukes led the Blushirts
" if it was raining soup he would be holding a fork"
He was gruff . His father and son were also all Ireland winners .
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Gruff?! 
Thatâs an understatement and a half.
The IRA killed over 600 British soldiers.
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John Leahy was born reared and won an all Ireland medal before he retired.
A multitude of average hurlers from Galway were born and reared and won nothing before they retired.
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Apparently
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and 3000 civilians
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