Davy Fitzgerald keeping a watchful eye on great falconer Brian Cody
As it happens, the fat cat in the hat fetched up, sans headgear, in that splendid establishment, Powers of Clarecastle, last Sunday night week. The place was rockin’ following the Banner’s win against Tipperary, and after he paid due obeisance to the household gods – the Sparrow, Johnny Callinan and other such luminaries – talk turned not to racing or even hurling but to Gaelic football, specifically to Ricci’s experience of playing a few matches for Roscommon in Gaelic Park many moons ago during his New York incarnation and his gradual discovery that this was not a game for discerning adults of doubtful manliness.
That tale related, Ricci disappeared into the Dalcassian twilight, his opinion on Messrs Fitzgerald and Cody sadly unimparted. Still, given that Ricci is pally with another Kilkenny man who specialises in sending out not just winners but serial champions, we can agree he’d probably get on well with Cody.
