Spending time reaps bigger rewards than flashing cash
Over the years, Paddy Christie got used to hearing it. So much so, he’d smile and tell culprits on sidelines across Dublin that if that was the case, he must be rich — after all, he lived in a house and additional property assumed wealth. But he never got used to his players having to hear it. The GAA was supposed to be about pride of place but this was his U10 Ballymun Kickhams team back in 1996 feeling nothing but shame about where they came from.
U2 once wrote ‘I see seven towers but I only see one way out,’ but if football was supposed to be about moments of escape, then you had to be unbreakable to think that lyric was inaccurate.
