Genuine All Star will be revered by the Banner
Imagine that. Mighty Mick O’Dwyer, due to wake up this morning as the new Clare senior football manager, 76 years young, heads into another season bearing a different banner yet again. What a luminous legend of the world of Gaeldom the Waterville man continues to be! His incredible record as coach and player surely makes him the brightest All Star of them all.
Whatever lies ahead of the Banner is certain to be both stimulating and exciting. O’Dwyer does not do the mundane. This is a man who broke both his legs in 1966, in his football prime, and they said he was finished. But he was back in a short two years in the Kerry strip and played some of his best football after that. This the man who did not hang up his county boots until the age of 37 years. And this is the man who crafted the greatest Kerry team of all time as manager in the years that followed. For sure the followers of the Banner are in for a new dimension over the next year at least. It’s an intriguing prospect.
