Tadgh Coakley: Days like tomorrow are the soul and centre of our lives

I've yet to meet a person who doesn't remember their first All-Ireland final. I certainly do. 

Passion project: A Limerick fan kisses the Liam McCarthy Cup through the perspex on Hill 16. "Days like Sunday grant us those emotions and they are the soul and centre of our lives. The soul and centre." INPHO/James Crombie

Do you remember your first All-Ireland final? I think you do. I’ve yet to meet a person who doesn’t.

I certainly do: it was in 1976 and I was 15. My father got me a ticket in the old Nally Stand and I took the train to Dublin on my own – my first time ever doing so.