Marc Ó Sé still ready, winning and able
One was for using my phone, stuck in traffic on the Grand Canal heading to the launch of Páidí’s tournament. The other for speeding outside Castleisland as I was running late for an interview with Marc in Tralee before the 2009 All-Ireland final. As it turned out, Marc was later.
What he said that day was worth the discomfort. Marc spoke of how difficult football had been living in the shadows of his brothers Darragh and Tomás. Always being measured, always being compared, always being contrasted. In ways, it was worse than having a father for a former player. Consider also the considerable shade cast on the trio by their uncle’s great career and while they mightn’t have licked it off a stone they certainly had to carry it. Yeah, Marc had it tough.
