I didn’t go out to ‘do’ Kirby in 1996, says Dunne
Dunne in his recently published book “I Crossed The Line,” said that both players pulled on the ball. However, Kirby alleged in a television interview on TG4 that he was struck by someone “pulling below the ball.”
On the morning after the All-Ireland final, at the traditional post-match function in the Burlington Hotel, Dunne says he shook hands with Limerick players Mike Nash and Dave Clarke and that “they didn’t speak much.” “Then Gary Kirby came into view and just as I was about to go over, I saw he had a big bandage on his finger and his hand was in a sling. That just turned me off and I didn’t bother approaching him.
