Tom O'Sullivan Interview: Defending Kerry

For a dozen seasons, Tom O’Sullivan filled the back pages with defensive exploits. Last month, he made the front pages for doing his day job. Life has never been ordinary for one of Kerry’s enigmatic heroes

WITH the investigation ongoing, there’s only so much Garda Tom O’Sullivan can say about what happened on the morning of August 13 last.

It began like a normal patrol day in the Listowel area when he responded to a call from the public about a possible break-in. Arriving at the scene, he noticed a masked man peeking around the side of a house. He followed him to the back of the building where the man and a number of his accomplices fled over the garden wall. O’Sullivan gave chase over another couple of walls before the drama concluded on the John B Keane Road where he managed to grab a hold of one of them as he attempted to get into a getaway car.