Kerry’s best years are ahead of them

I don’t know if Beckett was right or wrong, but he’s been on my mind a lot lately.

Samuel Beckett that is. To paraphrase him — if such a liberty is permitted — he said that whilst his best years may be gone, he wouldn’t want them back, not with the fire that dwelt in him when he coined this phrase in middle age.

I think I get him. But I don’t think I agree with him. Hearing about this Kerry team perform — I can’t come to watch them just yet — the poignancy of Beckett’s words came to mind. The defiant, bold, irresistibility of youth mixed with the even more defiant, bolder irresistibility of the middle-aged on this Kerry team is both poignant and potent.