OBITUARY: Donie Shine Snr, Roscommon manager - ‘Even away from football, people just loved to be in his company’
In it, Shine chose to refer to a funny incident from a club match. Picture the scene. Wet day, swamp of a field. Shine moves in on the goalkeeper, who, startled, gets his retaliation in first.
As Donie limbers up to strike back, the man between the sticks scarpered and the Clann man’s own team-mate stepped in to calm the situation, receiving a shoulder from Shine and ending up face down in a puddle. The way Donie told it, the goalkeeper was halfway across the bog as the Clann full-back wiped the mud from his eyes.
