Not one to take the Mick!

WHEN Mícheál O Muircheartaigh relates the yarn that a player who competed in the first game he commentated on in 1949 is still in receipt of the children’s allowance, it’s probably taken as a tall tale.

Who would believe 88-year-old Mick Finucane of Urlee, Lisselton, in the parish of Ballydonoghue Co Kerry would be eligible?

But he is, thanks to his 17-year-old daughter Niamh, born when Finucane found love again following a tragic farming accident in 1980 which killed his wife Peggy, with whom he had six children.