Conor Gormley is Harte’s ultimate firefighter
As most players do, some of the younger crew indulged in a bit of showing off. Keepy uppies and all that jazz. Conor Gormley, himself no stalwart at 20, grabs the ball, boots it into the next field and follows it with a volley of warnings that such trick-acting won’t win them a championship.
His message resonated. Carrickmore shocked Peter Canavan and Co. “He doesn’t like the messing about or that crossbar challenge lads do,” says his friend and club coach Sean Daly. “When you’re at training, you train. You bust your balls and have a laugh after. I remember one training session and he wasn’t happy with the quality of the sprints at the end. We were doing five 50-metre sprints and he made us do them all again because he saw lads winning the first sprint and the same lads winning the second sprint but they weren’t winning the ones in between.
