Sons and their fathers

Friendships formed on football fields twenty years apart bind together two of the country’s best know sporting families. But near tragedy has brought them even closer. Tony Leen addressed yesterdays and tomorrow with the Egans and the Cahalanes.

IF THE fall down the stairs at his Bishopstown home couldn’t kill him, the rumours would. John Egan died. Several times in fact.

But they always under-rated John Egan of Kerry. Having survived a decade as the under-rated goalador of the greatest gaelic football team, how could they under-rate his capacity to inch his way through eight months of learning to walk, talk and live again?