Micko

[myboyblue]

@binkybarnes

@myboyblue

He brought joy hitherto unimagined to my county and Kildare. He’ll always hold a special place for that reason for the people of both. The accusations of him taking money etc, well there’s cunts going around taking it and delivering fuck all. Micko delivered, even in Wicklow. He earned his money.

You are forever on here claiming that the GAA is dead. Bemoaning the organisation that it has become. Claming with some justification that it is overly commercialized with too many people with their snouts in the trough. Well Micko was one of the first to put his snout in the trough and he kept it there for 30 years. He was a pioneer for all the carpetbagging managers and coaches that dominate the GAA landscape today.

The GAA is dead. Its dying in rural Ireland, and its barely alive in urban areas.

Micko delivered on what he promised. We gave Teddy Mac the same money to to get done for drinking driving at the exact time he was meant to be on a sideline.

Micko didn’t kill GAA. He fucking set fire to it.

[myboyblue]

@HBV

kevin ‘heffo’ heffernan came across as an awful ingorant cunt i thought

I couldnt help but notice that. I’m not sure it needed to be put in by the Galway producer. Probably a puck in the ribs for '83.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

@HBV

kevin ‘heffo’ heffernan came across as an awful ingorant cunt i thought

I couldnt help but notice that. I’m not sure it needed to be put in by the Galway producer.

There was a huge bond between Micko, his team the Heffo. I remember at Heffos funeral the church was thronged with former Kerry greats.

[myboyblue]

That is correct.

[Fagan_ODowd]

I loved the old footage of the interviews over the bonnet of the car in Mick O’Dwyers garage in Waterville. It reminded me of a time when the “build up” to an All Ireland would consist of a slot on Sport Stadium where Mick Dunne would be standing in a farmyard and two hurlers would roll in in a Datsun and be interviewed by Mick across the car with the sound of cows lowing in the background.

[myboyblue]

Mick Dunne was a lovely man. Even if he was a Clonaslee man. A pioneer of GAA reporting.

[mickee321]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Little did I know Kildare would come calling

Sure you didn’t know you hungry prick

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

Mick Dunne was a lovely man. Even if he was a Clonaslee man. A pioneer of GAA reporting.

He went to Knockbeg, and worked in insurance. The reporting was a sideline for him. There used to be a place on D’Olier St called Dinty Moores which used to serve some of the cheapest food in Dublin. Mick had his lunch there every day.

[mickee321]

@johnnysachs

Unfortunately when an elderly wife or husband dies the one left behind is never too long being called to their eternal reward either. Hopefully he can see out his remaining days in some degree of comfort.

you get upwards of 100k when your wife dies tho from life insurance , id be off to bali if the kids were over 18 anyway

[TreatyStones]

@mickee321

you get upwards of 100k when your wife dies tho from life insurance , id be off to bali if the kids were over 18 anyway

I’d say not many people in their 80’s are maintaining life insurance though

[Sidney]

@johnnysachs

Unfortunately when an elderly wife or husband dies the one left behind is never too long being called to their eternal reward either. Hopefully he can see out his remaining days in some degree of comfort.

Certainly that’s true in the case of my grandmothers. Just the 39 and 36 years for them after their husbands died.

[myboyblue]

Sad to see them go so quickly.

[Sidney]

Women are far more resilient. Men are snowflakes.

[myboyblue]

@Sidney

Women are far more resilient. Men are snowflakes.

Still though, just the 36/9 years. Too quick.

[Matty_Hislop]

It’s sad really for Micko’s legacy that most people automatically think of a fat midget scoring a fluke of a goal.

[Julio_Geordio]

The first thing I think of is a demented man driving all over the country talking to himself

[balbec]

Leave @iron_mike out of this.

[mickee321]

@TreatyStones

@mickee321

you get upwards of 100k when your wife dies tho from life insurance , id be off to bali if the kids were over 18 anyway

I’d say not many people in their 80’s are maintaining life insurance though

you know what to do so…

[mickee321]

@Sidney

@johnnysachs

Unfortunately when an elderly wife or husband dies the one left behind is never too long being called to their eternal reward either. Hopefully he can see out his remaining days in some degree of comfort.

Certainly that’s true in the case of my grandmothers. Just the 39 and 36 years for them after their husbands died.

tell us that yarn again about how you stop outside the door of your grandmother’s house on the way to midnight mass on christmas eve… it was an enjoyable one…

[myboyblue]

@braz83

I presume it was the same people that made the Giles documentary? The style was almost identical

Twas. And the excellent All Ireland Day.

Loosehorse TV (LoosehorseTV)

A few of their other productions here

http://www.loosehorse.ie/our-recent-work/