Catching hope and footballs in the rye

It was panic stations on Friday and Aiden O’Sullivan was an oasis of calm, says John Riordan.

Catching hope and footballs in the rye

I’d never met him before but he was a reassuring voice on the other end of the phone in spite of the fact that he was bearing bad news.

FedEx had only delivered one of the 10 boxes of gear we needed for the Etihad GAA World Games in Abu Dhabi to the building he manages by Manhattan’s Columbus Circle.

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