The Fogarty Forum: Cork must respond to Croke Park pain
It also served as a reminder of Ger Loughnane’s rendition of the anti-war song on Clare’s fabled bonding session in Killarney at Easter 20 years ago and by singing it the message he succeeded in conveying to his players.
Loughnane recalls that night in the excellent RTE 2005 radio documentary “Clare Champions”: “There were two parts of it that I really emphasised. The first part ‘The real part came towards the very end of the song. By this time I was singing in such a way that everyone was really paying attention. The last part was ‘And when the ship pulled into Circular Quay/I looked at the place where my legs used to be/And thank Christ there was no-one there waiting for me to grieve, to mourn or to pity’.
