Dream of ’63 lives on

BEING taken to watch Waterford play Kilkenny in the All-Ireland hurling final of 1963 was a dream come true for a seven-year-old boy from Cappoquin.

It was Kieran O’Connor’s first visit to Croke Park where his brother Michael had helped the Déise to win the Liam McCarthy Cup four years earlier.

Waterford hurlers were beaten that year and young O’Connor, who remembers travelling to the game in high spirits, was broken-hearted.