Castlebar’s Durcan battles to beat blisters
They went to Croke Park to perform, to win, so Pat Holmes’s team took no consolation from their heroic failure. But whatever emotional hurt that Mitchels felt after their seven-point defeat to the Dublin kingpins was nothing compared to the physical pain endured that day by their talented young defender Paddy Durcan.
The then 20-year-old had been troubled by blisters on the soles of his feet since he was a teenager, and the problem often flared up during high-intensity games.
