That’s a low low blow from Ryan & I hope Lohan is aware of it.
“ In a way, they remind me a little of the Mayo footballers who, in Jim Gavin’s pomp, stretched Dublin to the limit but without ever getting over the line. In the process, they only served to enhance Dublin’s legacy “
It all depends where you come from but it does. Micko is a tough man. Some might use the word arrogant. He was over field maintenance for years in Na Piarsaigh and point blank refused to put down 45s on the pitch. And nobody was brave enough to challenge him.
And I’ll tell you if he’s from Kilkee, he kept that quiet. He always said he was Kilkishen east Clare.
The wife is from Thomastown kk. I used slag him that that’s where Shane got the hurling from. You’d see the steam rising off him.
As an aside, we were down at a ground hurling tournament in Causeway, north Kerry years ago. A sliotar went in behind the stand. While retrieving it I found a football. Proudly handing it to one of the Causeway mentors who promptly kicks it back over the stand, telling me, we’ve no use for that around here.
In their last 8 championship games they’ve won 6 by a single score, one draw with Tipp and that narrow defeat to Clare this year. The margins have been very fine.