I caught the last 20 minutes of that, plenty enough time for him to come across as a prick
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i was expecting to type RIP when i saw this bumped
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Any mention of how he loves âthe drivingâ?
Addicted to football and driving he can assure you
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ah sure ye d need summit to be listening to rather than the ultra exhilarating interviews that surround the Dublin senior football team\management.
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yes , several times over
I saw Billy Sheehan on the side of a pitch in Tymon Park last week at a juvenile training session in and around the St Judes pitches, is he kicking ball there now?
Paudi OâSe was a better manager than Micko.
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He was up to recently anyway. Was involved with Offaly during yer mans ill fated spell this year
Coach Gavin eclipsing Micko must have lads like sausages in a pan.
Iâm pretty sure Coach Gavinâs tax affairs are in order too. Then I canât see him whoring his managerial skills around the shite football counties when he gets bored winning All Irelandâs with Dublin either.
Even if Gavin won the next 20 All Irelands still no one would consider him as a better man than Micko
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People donât even see him as the best GAA manager called Jim
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The auld rogue, still going at 85. I wonder how hes keeping, he was looking shook in that documentary a while back. One of our greats as a nation.
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âThe wheel keeps on turningâ - capturing the moment Sam was reunited with Micko
Cian OâConnor - son of Kerry manager Jack - on his photograph that lit up social media over the weekend
âThe wheel keeps on turningâ - capturing the moment Sam was reunited with Micko
FOOTBALL ROYALTY: Jack OâConnor and Mick OâDwyer with the Sam Maguire in Waterville on Friday night. Pic: Cian OâConnor
âWe left Dingle on Friday morning with the Sam Maguire and headed for home in St Finians Bay before the official All-Ireland homecoming in Dromid that night.
âWhat would normally be about a two hour journey took about four and half hours as we stopped at various places along the way including a call to see Jackâs good friend Dan Tim OâSullivan in Kells.
âAt a few places, Jack would go on ahead and see if this person or that person was home and then he would ring me to bring the Cup. Iâd have to time my run between the traffic so that Sam Maguire wouldnât be spotted.
âWhat struck me most was the reaction of people along the way. It was like carrying the relics of St James - everyone wanted to see and touch the Sam Maguire.
âWe eventually got home and gathered ourselves for a while. Shortly afterwards we met up with my aunts and uncles and travelled up to the family grave in Waterville where my grandparents, Jackâs mother and father are buried. Jack did a lot of praying to his parents during the year.
âWhile we were there, Jack asked his brother Mike if we should call to see Mick OâDwyer.
âIn the aftermath of the All-Ireland final, Micko had sent through a message to Jack congratulating him on the win over Galway.
âNow you can only imagine how many messages Jack received after the game but certain messages mean a bit more and that one from Micko meant a lot to him.
âThough theyâd be club rivals, they would have fierce respect for each other.
âJack had been thinking about it during the day and felt it would be a nice gesture to call to see Micko with the trophy. We left the graveyard and headed down into Waterville. Nothing was arranged so we (Jack, Mike, myself and my wife Maeve) headed to Mickoâs house but we werenât sure heâd be there.
âMary, who helps out with Micko, answered the door and welcomed us in. In we went and there was Micko, sitting in a fine comfortable chair looking out towards the golf course. Jack sat down alongside him and they had a few quiet words for a few minutes.
"I took a load of photos of them together but there was one of them in deep conversation that was the standout.
âIt was just the way that Jack was looking at Micko, and Micko had his hand on the Cup.
âI knew straightaway that this was a powerful picture which sums up all that is good about Kerry football. It is never about one man - it is about tradition. I checked with Micko if he was happy that we made the picture public and he gave the green light.
âWe left for Dromid and after the ceremony there I said that Iâd send the picture to the Kerry county board for use on their social media. I had to walk a few hundred yards to get phone reception and I rang Leona Twiss who is the Kerry GAA PRO and explained the picture I had taken.
"She told me to send it on straightaway and she would do the rest. It went up on their social media around 8pm on Friday night and within 20 minutes it had 35,000 views. I donât know how many people have seen it since.
âAs I said earlier, it is about the Kerry way and passing the baton through the generations.
"At the homecoming in Dromid I watched Declan OâSullivan in the middle of the crowd looking up with pride at Graham OâSullivan on the platform. The wheel keeps on turning and hopefully another photograph like this will be taken in 30 or 40 years time.â
In an interview with Colm OâConnor
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Read a piece on the 42 there about the battle for the Mayo job in the winter of 2010/11. Didnât realise Micko was in for the Mayo job that time and was deeply disappointed when he wasnât in the final 3. Of course James Horan ended up doing a fine job during that period but Micko in Mayo would have been iconic. Probably 5-10 years too late for him though at that stage.
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Micko is hardly in need of a cut glass vase at this point in time.
Who thinks up these zany ideas - heâd have been happy enough to see the lads if theyâd just brought a couple of packets of chocolate gold grain biccies.
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Iâm gonna say the fella to Mickoâs right. But yeah, you nailed it alright. I know Ross pops down to him regularly enough, as do a few others
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