Obituary: Teddy McCarthy.
Declan Bogue THERE IS A small consolation in the devastation caused when somebody dies, especially unexpectedly.
The former Clare hurling captain Anthony Daly said once on an Irish Examiner podcast that he was in a bar in Blackpool one evening and there was a terrible fuss being made about him by the locals. That was until an elder statesman of the drinking shop interrupted proceedings to enquire, ‘And how many All-Irelands did ye win?’
August 2 – Munster football final replay. When he was just 17, he had nine different teams to play for. In one fortnight in August 1982 he played six championship games in 12 days. His mother Mary’s hands were red raw from scrubbing grass stains out of his shorts. On the train on the way back from the semi-final, Meyler was sharing a train carriage with the manager Johnny Clifford, Dr Con Murphy and Jimmy Barry-Murphy. Johnny asked if Meyler might excuse them so they could have a chat.‘But I was half-listening in to what they were saying and it turned out they were picking the team for the All-Ireland.
Referee Ned Porter asked the selectors to take him off. Soon after he was heading down the wing and sensed two players closing in to make him the meat in a sandwich. He swung his elbow back to catch one on the chin. All hell broke out and Walsh grabbed him and marched him into his car as the match was abandoned.
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