He was wing back on the 93 team, won a club all Ireland with Lavey too I think. If memory serves my right he did some time in the slammer over pilfering money to fund a gambling addiction
Ah they had class everywhere … Should have achieved so much more …mcgurk kicked a great point off his weak foot in semi final to beat Dublin …
Sambo should be a good story too.
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Fitzgerald was also the boyfriend of poor Maired Meehan when she died, he has spoken about it before in an interview so I expect the show will touch on that too.
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That was very sad.
Says it all about how good he was that he was a big, big loss to Corofin when he retired.
To play the full 90 minutes of the last Club Final at 40 years of age was absolutely remarkable.
He must have been unreal as a 20 year old in a very good Galway team. Not many 20 year olds have started on an All Ireland Senior winning football team since.
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An outstanding clubman, it wasn’t just that he was still playing when he was nearly 40 but he was one of the key men on one of the greatest club sides of all time. Corofin might have a conveyor belt of talent, but Fitzgerald had far more than talent and so they have no replacement for him.
Having said all that I’m not sure he was a great footballer at intercounty level, I’d have him in the same bracket as Joe Bergin who was even younger than Fitzgerald when winning the All-Ireland in 2001. The game changed at intercounty level after 2001 and neither Fitzgerald or Bergin had what was needed in the new game.
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McGurk was an outstanding footballer. Brolly had the bit of showbiz but lads like McGurk, Tohill, Henry Downey, Tony Scullion and Enda Gormley were far more influential in 93.
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Ah he was very good the first few years of his career but that Galway side pretty much broke up after 03 and most of the next decade was spent in some form of transition struggling to come to terms with the concept of defensive football. There was a string of championship defeats to very moderate opposition sides. Often in low scoring defensive games and often by a single point (Westmeath in 06, Sligo 07, Donegal 09, Wexford 10, Meath 11, Antrim 12). I think they lost all those games by the bare minimum. Looking back it was actually a desperate stretch for Galway akin to the late 80’s early 90’s.
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I expected a lot from Joe Kernan and Ger Loughane when they arrived in Galway but it just never materialised for either like it had done in their home counties.
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Missed it tonight. Was it Sambo McNaughton?
Yep, very good
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The hour long Laochra Gael is a big improvement. A lot of the old half hour ones really went through a players career at breakneck speed at times. Missing a lot of stuff.
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I concur, it was excellent. Sambo (and indeed Ciaran Barr) came across as absolute gents. The tiny segment with John McKillop was the icing on the cake.
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Michael Dara went to secondary school in Blackrock College. Would it be a rarity for them to have an inter-county footballer amongst their alumini?
Vaughany went there too
Amazingly he’s only a year older than MDMA. Like from two different era’s.
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Is there not a few of the dubs went there? Fitzsimons and o Carroll maybe? Think jack Mc and ger Brennan went to belvo
Corkery went there i think. Think o Carroll colaiste Eoin. Fitz was dalkey