Cormac MacConnell: Birthday words of wisdom to Orla (11)

Dear Orla MacConnell (11),

This is all because of the woeful offence you committed against the family last year, when you turned out to play for the Spiddal underage girls against your father’s native Barna, and scored the two goals that mattered in the end. Dreadfully true.

Orla, I would have you know that the Barna GAA club was central to the life of the MacConnell family during the decades we dwelt there.