Before I led the Clarecastle team out at half-time of yesterday’s Clare county final, to collect our 25-year anniversary plaques, somebody handed me the 1994 county final programme. We beat a young St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield team that afternoon and, as I scanned the teams, Ger Hoey’s name jumped out at me.

WHAT would one of the most fabled leaders of the 1920s Republican forces think of this country being baled out by the British?

IN the village that gave its name to the country’s most infamous Catholic diocese, a small middle-aged man stepped into the bar, trying to be inconspicuous.