Tomás Ó Sé: The night Cork and Kerry squared up in the Courthouse

It was presumed to be one of the more apocryphal tales of the Cork-Kerry football rivalry.
Tomás Ó Sé: The night Cork and Kerry squared up in the Courthouse

A late night rutting session in a Cork city pub, with Rebel and Kingdom players squaring up to each other — Mick Galwey on one side, Dougie Howlett on the other and a bottle of whiskey in the middle.

Well it appears there was more than a grain of truth in it, if Tomás Ó Sé’s revelations in his soon to be published autobiography, ‘The White Heat’ can be taken as fact. Ó Sé dedicates an entire chapter of the book to his relationship with Cork, where he has lived for 15 years and retains relative anonymity — “half the Munster team lived in Douglas, sure why would they have paid attention to me?”

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