A journey, and a day, that lives long in Martin O’Neill’s memory
His speech was a charming, thoughtful discussion of the great anomalies, ironies, paradoxes, and even downright contradictions which characterised his life.
He remembered in fine detail his upbringing in an Irish working-class family in County Derry and told of how his family — like most of the nationalist families in his area — paraded their strong GAA background like a great defining banner, all the while looking askance at soccer.
