Pride and passion

IF you see someone in a ‘Hendrix was a hurler’ T-shirt, or a 1983 Dublin jersey, you’ve seen the latest GAA leisure-wear. Michael Moynihan speaks to those responsible, the men running Squareball.com and Retrogaa.com

THE concept came to Nick Laird and Joe Passmore in a pub. Unlike most great ideas conceived in bars, however, this one survived.

“I designed a T-shirt for the Celtic Bar in Tyrone in 2003,” recalls Laird. “It worked out well, and I did one for the same bar in 2005, using the Gooch. We got national press coverage because there was a high design element and we decided to bring it one stage further.”