Shouldn’t Government make this a Bank Holiday weekend?

On Thursday, Stephen Sheedy and I went up to Athenry to have a look at the greyhounds and drop off a few tickets to Gerry Holian.

Gerry played midfield alongside Sylvie Linnane in the 1973 All-Ireland minor final against Kilkenny before pursuing a career as one of the country’s top greyhound trainers. He was the man behind the success of ‘Murty’s Gang’, our dog which won the Derby at Clonmel in 2002.

Gerry is a good hurling man but they’ve gone bananas up in Galway looking for tickets. Anytime I saw a 091 number coming up on my phone - and there were a few - I didn’t answer it because I’d no tickets. Galway were good to Clare with tickets in 2013 and the hurling public up there have been leaning heavily on us this week but the demand has been so crazy that you couldn’t meet it.