Savage loves his native shore, just ask MacDara

He may be years in Waterford, but Macdara Mac Donncha doesn’t bite when you ask about his loyalties.

Déise side Lismore took on Galway champions Ahascragh-Foghenagh in the All-Ireland intermediate semi-final a couple of weeks back, and the TG4 commentator was pulling for his native place back across the Shannon: “Stop, stop, the savage loves his native shore.”

That corner of Galway has known big days before, of course. “We had a taste of it with Caltra’s footballers, back in 2004. They won the county, Connacht, and then you’re in absolute dreamland. Ahascragh and Caltra is a bit like Fourmilewater and Ballymacarbry, or Ballinacourty and Abbeyside. They’re two halves of the parish - and Fohenagh is across the bridge, then.”