Acknowledging the problem first step to recovery

It’s a few years since I sat down with Dr Con Murphy to chat about Gaelic games in Cork and had him open with a fair trump card.

In 1957 he was the mascot when the Cork footballers lost the All-Ireland final to Louth in dramatic fashion. He described it as the first time he’d seen grown men cry before remarking, tellingly, that it was good preparation for a lifetime following the Cork footballers.