“Well, you all came down here for a funeral, did you lads?” he smiled. “I bet there wasn’t half as many here last week to write Sean Boylan’s obituary.”
Although officially, there was only 18,881 in the old ground, those that weren’t stuck in traffic outside Kells made their voice heard.
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