The Galway club putting its best foot forward when the game is over

"The one thing I took from it was I had been hurling with lads for 30 years and I thought I knew them but I didn’t f***ing know them at all. You’d get talking with lads when you’re walking with them. You’d be at home thinking about things and you find out other lads would be thinking the same things."

It was 1916 that started it all off. The Mullagh GAA club were looking for an army officer to lead the centenary commemorative parade and Eric Glennon came up with fellow local Paul Melly.

So Glennon was entrusted in requesting Melly, a former under-age Ireland soccer international, if he would perform the duty, which he did. But Glennon wasn’t done with the asking.