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# loi-legends - Sunday 28 October, 2018
'Bayern Munich had already sold tickets for the next round... We were minutes away from history'
Mick Kearin reflects on going up against Franz Beckenbauer, being the only Kildare man to be capped by Ireland and the difficulties in loving a “foreign game”.
# loi-legends - Sunday 21 October, 2018
'Leeds United were over for a second or third look at me the day I got my ankle broken in two places'
Con McLaughlin, the first Donegal man to score 100 goals in the League of Ireland, looks back on his career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 14 October, 2018
'Boredom leads to a lot of things and we ended up going to the pub and wasting ourselves'
Remembered best for scoring two goals in the Old Firm derby, ex-Celtic midfielder Paul Byrne has more than his fair share of regrets.
# loi-legends - Sunday 23 September, 2018
‘I’ve good friends that are in prison and some that are dead. For me football was an escape’
Mark Quigley discusses his time at Millwall and his League of Ireland career where the Dubliner won every domestic honour and was named PFAI Player of the Year.
# loi-legends - Sunday 16 September, 2018
'It’s nice to have the feeling that you belong to a club and I don’t think there are any better than Bohs'
Former Bohemians captain Kevin Hunt looks back at a decade with the Gypsies, playing in Asia and life after retirement.
# loi-legends - Sunday 9 September, 2018
Facing Zidane in Dublin, an ill-fated stint in England and becoming one of Irish football's all-time top scorers
Former Bohemians and UCD star Derek Swan reflects on a memorable career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 2 September, 2018
'It does make you stay awake at night and struggle to sleep, and not want to get up in the morning'
Ex-Ireland international Noel Hunt on persistent abuse from fans as well as highs and lows at Reading, Leeds and elsewhere in his football career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 26 August, 2018
'It had become slightly more difficult. Your wife starts to realise that actually, weekends exist'
Former UCD, Drogheda and Shamrock Rovers star Andy Myler reflects on his career in football.
# loi-legends - Sunday 19 August, 2018
'My mother told me to stick with the butcher's trade as she said I'd need it more than the football'
Former St Patrick’s Athletic, Bohemians and Derry City striker Joe Lawless looks back on his playing days.
# loi-legends - Sunday 5 August, 2018
'I played for that jersey' - The Limerick lad who marked Maradona and battled Real Madrid in the European Cup
Pat Nolan reflects on winning the Premier Division and FAI Cup with Limerick, playing against Real Madrid in Europe and being tasked with marking Diego Maradona.
# loi-legends - Sunday 29 July, 2018
'We had another bottle of beer. Next thing, the agent came in and said: You have to play a match tonight'
One of the League of Ireland’s all-time top goalscorers, Mick Byrne, reflects on a brilliant career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 22 July, 2018
'I learned English in school but it wasn't really the same English in Derry': from Belgrade to the Brandywell
Alex Krstic on conquering the Derry accent, the club’s mid-80s revolution and being a local sex symbol.
# loi-legends - Sunday 8 July, 2018
'The fans were thinking: F**k sake, we paid that amount of money for this lad and he's useless'
The hero of the 1992 FAI Cup final reflects on his career in football.
# loi-legends - Sunday 1 July, 2018
'You’d get phone calls at 4am, lads would have had a few drinks and this fella is roaring down the phone'
Former Shelbourne, Drogheda and Longford midfielder Stuart Byrne reflects on his career in football,
# loi-legends - Sunday 17 June, 2018
'In my eyes, I was doing enough to warrant a night-out on a Saturday with my mates'
Philip Hughes on a career with 19 transfers, 11 clubs and 138 goals.
# loi-legends - Sunday 10 June, 2018
'I ended up working for DHL Express and Zidane went on to manage Real Madrid'
Former St Patrick’s Athletic and Bohemians defender Maurice O’Driscoll on facing one of the greats, a brief spell managing in the LOI and his highly-rated son Aaron.
# loi-legends - Sunday 3 June, 2018
'I was so disillusioned that, believe it or not, I don’t even watch football anymore'
Jonathan Speak on winning the treble with Derry, getting relegated on the last day with Finn Harps and numerous other highs and lows.
# loi-legends - Sunday 20 May, 2018
'Sometimes you can feel sorry for yourself but there's no point - I was the lucky one'
Tony Cousins on Chelsea in the 1980s, those infamous Liverpool Christmas parties and a legendary League of Ireland career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 13 May, 2018
'I drew crowds wherever I went. Even when we played away I put a couple of thousand on the gate'
Carl Davenport was a star on and off the pitch for Cork Celtic and Hibs during a golden period for football on Leeside.
# loi-legends - Sunday 6 May, 2018
'Things were going really well and what killed me looking back was Ron Atkinson got the bullet'
Alan Kirby talks to The42 about his time at Aston Villa and his fond memories of playing with various League of Ireland teams.
# loi-legends - Sunday 29 April, 2018
"I walked down the road. It was the loneliest walk. I said 'there's 20 years of my life'"
Sligo Rovers legend Tony Fagan on his long love affair with the club where he made his name.
# loi-legends - Sunday 22 April, 2018
'I told Fergie to shove his Manchester United contract and he told me to get out of his office'
Joe Hanrahan’s career included League of Ireland and FAI Cup medals, plus a spell at Old Trafford.
# loi-legends - Sunday 15 April, 2018
"They asked me about Effenberg. And I said: 'If he thinks I was like his father, he played like my mother'"
Cork City legend Dave Barry on winning All-Irelands, scoring against Bayern Munich, Patsy Freyne’s fondness for a smoke and representing Ireland against Man United.
# loi-legends - Sunday 8 April, 2018
'Liam Brady ran across to me and said ‘Paddy, your Panathinaikos players are f***ing mad!''
Ex-Ireland, Shamrock Rovers, Chelsea and West Brom full-back Paddy Mulligan on his beginnings and a wonderful playing career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 1 April, 2018
‘We weren't allowed use a soccer ball… GAA would have been the sport in the school’
Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne legend Mick Neville on growing up in a different Ireland, his illustrious playing career and coaching future stars.
# loi-legends - Sunday 25 March, 2018
'I'm honest enough to admit I wasn't good enough to be playing for Aston Villa in the Premier League'
One of the League of Ireland’s great goalscorers reflects on his career.
# loi-legends - Sunday 18 March, 2018
'Ireland was gone as a country. Michael Jackson played Páirc Uí Chaoimh... Next day, I was on a plane'
One of the League of Ireland’s greatest strikers, Pat Morley, on his road to becoming a Cork City legend.
# loi-legends - Sunday 11 March, 2018
'Out of the blue, I got a phone call to say Manchester United were interested in me'
Liam O’Brien reflects on a memorable career that included stints at Shamrock Rovers, the Red Devils and Newcastle.
# loi-legends - Sunday 4 March, 2018
‘No other clubs were offering full-time deals... I’d just bought a house and had a kid’
One of the League of Ireland’s all-time top goalscorers, Declan O’Brien, reflects on a career that saw him to go from hero to villain and back again.
# loi-legends - Sunday 25 February, 2018
'I genuinely don’t have any regrets. I’m honest enough to realise that I didn’t put in the work'
Alan Cawley talks joining Leeds United as a teenager, winning a league title with Shelbourne and getting into TV punditry.
# loi-legends - Sunday 18 February, 2018
'The doorbell rings at 4am. It's a taxi with Joe Royle... We ended up having rasher sandwiches in the kitchen'
As The42′s League of Ireland legends series is renewed for a second season, we chat to former Dundalk, Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers star Terry Eviston.
# loi-legends - Saturday 23 December, 2017
'I don't think I would get a good reception if I went back to the club and that is disappointing'
The last defender to win the PFAI Player of the Year award on life in New Zealand and what went before it.
# loi-legends - Saturday 4 November, 2017
'It was getting harder and harder... They pretty much refused to pay us most of the time'
Cork City are looking to end a memorable season on a high in the FAI Cup final this weekend. Dan Murray, one of the club’s most highly regarded ex-players, has been present for the good times and the bad.
# loi-legends - Sunday 29 October, 2017
‘It was a scandal! It was revealed afterwards there was skulduggery going on in the background’
Eoin Hand chats to The42 about his incredible career in football.
# loi-legends - Sunday 22 October, 2017
'John Giles came to the house... He wanted to get a group of young lads together, the best in the country'
Ex-Shamrock Rovers player and current Bray boss Harry Kenny chats to The42 about his distinguished career in the League of Ireland.
# loi-legends - Sunday 15 October, 2017
"I was going in training with the youth team and I just thought: 'What's the point?'"
Gary Twigg tells The42 how he overcame a number of setbacks to become a League of Ireland legend.
# loi-legends - Sunday 8 October, 2017
'I told Bobby Robson I wasn’t coming back to England'
Dundalk, Athlone and Bohemians legend Turlough O’Connor reflects on a memorable career in the League of Ireland.
# loi-legends - Sunday 1 October, 2017
'The Irish lads at Leeds were so good to us. They would always be giving us money and stuff'
Midfielder Paul Keegan opens up about his playing days in England and returning home to help Waterford’s cause.
# loi-legends - Sunday 24 September, 2017
"You're thinking: 'We're 45 minutes away from the group stages of the Champions League'"
Ollie Cahill chats to The42 about a memorable career in the League of Ireland.
# loi-legends - Sunday 17 September, 2017
'I was actually offered a new contract but that was taken away when Souness left'
Gavin Peers looks back on a decorated career that saw him win ever major honour in Irish football.
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