Paul Rouse: When Kilkenny gained an extra man in an All-Ireland final parade

The extra man in the parade was John Gregson, an English actor, who was a leading post-war comedy actor in Britain, starring in more than 40 feature films.

Rooney (1958), that features John Gregson, the man who walked in the parade with the Kilkenny team.

On 24 November 2008, Regina Fitzpatrick – a researcher with the GAA Oral History Project – travelled to Ferrybank in Co. Waterford and interviewed Paddy Buggy, former President of the GAA and former All-Ireland winning Kilkenny hurler.

It is an extraordinary interview, running over 4 hours and 12 minutes, Paddy Buggy – by then just about to turn 80 – gave a vivid insight into a lifetime lived in the GAA.