Tag: Philly McMahon
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The good and the shaky of Derry
These are strange times in the sporting world. We have GAA Championships being played at a ludicrous time of the year, new fangled pundits giving it a No Country For Old Men feel, telling us the most basic and best way of playing Gaelic football is wrong, and old men taking on jobs when they…
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By all means hail the King but do it with a bit of class
At some stage during last year’s hurling Championship, Pat Horgan of Cork overtook Joe Canning as the leading all time scorer in the sport. The Galway ace having himself usurped none other than Christy Ring (I think). But here’s the thing. ‘Hoggie’ just trotted back to his position. No fanfare, no whooping or hollering. He…
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Philly may have been in Mayo dressing room
In Pat Comer’s wonderful A Year ‘Til Sunday documentary chronicling Galway’s ultimately glorious 1998 campaign, it cuts to a team meeting in between the drawn and replayed Connacht finals against Roscommon. John O’Mahony is letting his players have it after a lack lustre display in the drawn game. He produced the local papers and read…