ONE OF THE little pleasures in the hours after big GAA games these days, is listening back to the local radio station’s match commentary – particularly on occasion of high drama and emotion.
Predictably enough, yesterday’s Galway Bay FM evocation of the final moments of the All-Ireland hurling final in which the Tribesmen ended a 29-year famine was suitably tense, full of historical context and articulated beautifully, despite some tears.
Conor Hayes – who yesterday morning woke up for the final time as the last man to skipper a Galway side to the Liam MacCarthy cup — was in co-commentary.
“I am absolutely delighted that I will die a happy man now that I’m not the last man to captain a Galway team to win an All-Ireland senior title. We have a new one now and it’s David Burke,” he said.
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