The Kieran Shannon Interview: Waterford legend Tony Browne on that elusive All-Ireland medal

In his first interview since finishing up the longest inter-county career since Christy Ring, quiet man Tony Browne opens up to Kieran Shannon about pride and anguish and the medal that got away.

GONE FISHIN’

I’d often go fishing the day after a game. It just allowed me to come out of that frenzied bubble, you know? Your mind might be knotted up but slowly and surely over the hours out there it just untangles and untangles [he motions a reeling action, as if he has a rod in his hand]. Some lads would play golf but I found no solace in that, it wasn’t for me. You’re hitting a golf ball and someone’s telling you ‘You should have done this yesterday, you should have done that.’ How do you untangle then? But the fishing, the clean air, the water, it just seemed to wash away the tangles for me.