‘Legacies can inspire rather than burden’

Step into the impressive St Vincent’s GAA bar room and it’s not long before you’re reminded of the club’s glory era.

The 1970s and early 1980s were good to Vincent’s and that’s hardly surprising; Brian Mullins, Jimmy Keaveney, Tony Hanahoe, Fran Ryder, Bobby Doyle, they were all in their prime.

The thing is, those pictures of famous days had the potential to both inspire and intimidate. And for a while there, it looked as if the latter may be occurring.