Better late than never

Thirty years after waking up in hospital to ask the nurses who won the All-Ireland he was playing in, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to make his victory speech, with a familiar figure in close attendance. Michael Moynihan and Murt Murphy report.

YOU remember his run, of course. Who could forget it? If the 1975 All-Ireland final had been played on snow then Mickey Ned O’Sullivan wouldn’t have left a footprint.

Time and again he came swerving and slaloming through the Dublin defence, until one of those runs came to - well, full stop doesn’t do it justice. Try an exclamation mark with double underlining.