OBITUARY: Legendary Kilkenny handballer, Michael ‘Ducksie’ Walsh

Michael ‘Ducksie’ Walsh was a champion to his fingertips, writes Paul Fitzpatrick

If you’re a handball nut, you’ll know the drill well. Taxi drivers, blowhards, wannabes and never-weres – they all sound the same, familiar chorus.

They hear ‘handball’ and two comments follow. “Great game, that, pity there’s not more coverage” and then, sure as a flat roll-out from 50 feet, “yer man Ducksie Walsh was the best, wasn’t he?”