The GAA’s loss has been Tipp’s glorious gain

Not for the first and hopefully not for the last time, Seamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett once again flew in the face of the mainstream.
On the always-interesting GAA Hour, the former Laois manager, who once managed a midlands rock band called Mere Mortals that made it onto the bill of Féile, reminded his fellow maverick of a Laois man, Colm Parkinson, that contrary to how the media consensus forming around Liam MacCarthy’s latest trip to Tipp, Liam Sheedy was no messiah but rather a mere mortal himself.