Séamus Mac Géidigh obituary: ‘He got on with everyone in the GAA community, an achievement in itself’

Séamus Mac Géidigh was broadcaster and manager of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s northwest service in Donegal

St Tiernach’s Park in Clones reached levels of acoustic frenzy in the latter stages of Sunday’s Ulster final as Tyrone — at Donegal’s expense — won the Anglo-Celt Cup for the first time since 2010.

In such tense atmospheres down the years, one of the stand-out memories was the lyrical and unmistakable tone of Séamus Mac Géidigh, broadcasting live in the native tongue — an teanga náisiúnta — for listeners of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta wherever they were dotted on the globe.