A true sporting legend and hero to many

I really enjoyed reading Michael Moynihan’s tribute to Nicky Rackard in your newspaper recently, (Sport, March 19).

As the son of a passionate Wexford man and a Cork mother, hurling was the game we played in our back garden in Cabra in the heart of Dublin city.

I never fully understood till years later why my father, who came from a football part of the county, chose hurling over football. I discovered that it was all down to the Rackard brothers and their heroic and sporting exploits throughout the ’40s and ’50s.