The long and winding road

Preparing for an ninth All-Ireland final might induce world weariness in some. Not Tomás Ó Sé. He still fears losing too much.

GETTING Tomás Ó Sé to talk is one thing. Retrieving recorded evidence of the conversation, quite another.

“I feel like hopping that thing off the wall,” he says. That ‘thing’ is a dictaphone, a writer’s football boots. But how then do we prise morsels from Legends of the Fall if we don’t prod and probe. The ways of winning, again and again. Five All-Ireland medals is it? Who’s counting.