Maldini a better corner-back than Fan Larkin? Dan McEvoy didn’t think so

Dan McEvoy from the Hebron Road, opposite Nowlan Park, went to his first All-Ireland final in 1945. He was 17-years-old.

He brought his bicycle on the train to Dublin and stayed with his cousin Brendan Joyce in the latter’s flat in Dun Laoghaire. Kilkenny were playing Tipp and, being young enough to know no better, Dan reckoned they couldn’t be beaten.

They were, 5-6 to 3-6, upon which he sat down on the steps of the Long Stand in Croke Park and cried. Well, how was he to know he’d witness 38 more All-Ireland finals involving Kilkenny or that they’d win 26 of them?