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CULTURE
“I can’t avoid being interested in people. Croke Park championship game, is a classic With his vast knowledge, listing famous
I travel all over the country every week and of the genre: “Brian Dooher is down players would be invidious for Ó
meet all sorts, not all of whom are GAA injured. And while he is, I’ll tell you a little Muircheartaigh but he always refers to the
people. I suppose I do have a free spirit but story. I was in New York’s Time Square last late Sean Purcell of Galway as one of the
it is a great way to be. I have been hugely week and I was missing the championship finest footballers, as well as the Down
impressed in recent years by the growth of games back home. I went to a news-stand football teams of the early 1960s and the
GAA clubs all over the world, which I have and said, ‘You wouldn’t have The Kerryman flamboyant personalities who created
often visited. For instance, the Asian GAA newspaper by any chance?’ To which the history for the Offaly hurlers in their
Games were recently held in Shanghai with Egyptian behind the counter asks, ‘Do you breakthrough in the early 1980s. Modesty
clubs flying in from places like Singapore.” want the north Kerry or south Kerry forbids him to list the greatest Kerry
Several of his own children are now living edition?’ He had both, so I bought the two football heroes!
in far-flung places and over the past 30 of them. Now Brian Dooher is back on his Ó Muircheartaigh is actively living a long
years there has always been at least one of feet again.” and full life. Popularity and recognition rest
his three boys and five girls by his side in the One of his proudest achievements was very lightly on the Dún Síon native and few
commentary box to mark his card. when he was awarded the UCD Foundation institutions in Ireland are as resilient.
Day Medal on 9 November 2007, in Tá seanfhocal mar seo: ‘Maireann croí
Bilingual brilliance recognition of his distinguished career as a éadrom i bhfad’ – a light heart lives longest.
Irish as a spoken language is dear to his sports journalist in Gaelic games dating I cannot think of a more apt description for
heart and he constantly uses ‘píosaí beag as back to his start in 1949. Ó Muircheartaigh Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh.
Gaeilge’ in his big-match commentaries to enjoyed his leisurely progress through UCD
the delight of many thousands, just as his as a night student, and regards his 12 years Writer Eugene McGee (BA ’65, HDipEd ‘66)
skill at filling ‘valley periods’ at matches there as very important for providing the was recently conferred with an honorary
with incomparable asides has brought this broad diversity of friends he acquired at Doctorate of Laws from the National
skill to a fine art. Here, in the heat of a university. University of Ireland.
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