‘We would have gone through a wall for that man’

As thousands paid their respects to Páidí Ó Sé’s family in Ventry yesterday, Westmeath star Denis Glennon remembered how the Kerryman inspired them to win their first and only Leinster SFC title in 2004.

“My memory of Páidí is that he gave me my breakthrough with Westmeath. I was very young at the time and he gave myself, Alan Mangan and Gary Connaughton our breakthrough into the county team.

“They were players that hadn’t done too much with Westmeath up to that but Páidí had the knack of getting the best out of players so that we could achieve success.