‘One of the GAA’s most recognised voices’

People hung by the radio waiting for his voice to tell them if their county had won or lost.

And for 58 years he held the vital information that the country’s GAA fans longed to hear. But yesterday, aged 89, Séan Óg Ó Ceallacháin passed away. Having made his name as a legendary broadcaster with RTÉ he achieved worldwide distinction presenting his Sunday night GAA results programme for almost six decades.

Séan Óg, who took over the role from his father, also played inter-county hurling for Dublin for 10 years from 1943, lining out in the 1948 All-Ireland final and numbering Mick Mackey and Christy Ring among his opponents.