Paul Galvin worth the liberties
Shall he, as Thomas Hardy so wished about himself in “Afterwards”, be remembered fondly? Or would he be that preoccupied with his legacy? Galvin was more of a Dylan Thomas man, and ventured outside the Welsh poet’s works on the Leaving Cert syllabus for inspiration. Some years back, he intended being tattooed with the famous line from “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” — “rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
His naysayers will snort and scoff at the mention of that line and proffer he now hardly stands so defiantly in protest at the dwindling of his inter-county career as an awry trial at reinventing himself as a centre-back tipped him over the edge.
