Keeping an eye and ear on effin’ Eddie’s Glensmen

THE eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that Tipperary outfit Aherlow collected a second Tipperary SFC title last weekend.

The boys from the Glen will, of course, forever be associated with Eddie Moroney’s freewheeling commentary which accompanies the videotape of the 1992 U21 final between Aherlow and Éire Óg Nenagh, one of those screen gems which could do with half-a-dozen remastered versions (Aherlow-Éire Óg the Director’s Cut; the Extended Edition; Redux).

Because the video predated the internet – the clue is in the term ‘video’ itself – it generated a buzz by word of mouth a Hollywood studio would kill for. Yours truly was in California when a copy made its way to the west coast, and sidled along to a bar in San Francisco to see if it lived up to the hype.