No tree too big to fell as O’Leary ready for showtime
Last Saturday, as a general election campaign swirled at our door, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, I thought the same while Croke Park hunkered down under the bright lights. Earlier, as the bulbs warmed over Dublin’s biggest stage, I met a man who boasts the scars of many a campaign of his own.
For someone who earns his living swinging high amongst the branches with a saw, one imagines, clamped between his teeth, you’d expect Noel O’Leary to know where The Big Tree is. The Dublin watering hole is one station on the pilgrimage to Croker for many GAA supporters in the summertime. He must have rolled past the Dorset Street pub behind a coach window on countless occasions through the seasons with Cork’s football panels.
