The Kieran Shannon Interview: Tommy Guilfoyle - The previous captain

Who is Tommy Guilfoyle? Told by a doctor he’d never hurl, he hit 2-3 against Cork in the 1986 Munster final and played with Feakle until he was 49. He has suffered personal pain. ‘He was virtually unstoppable,’ declares Anthony Daly. That’s Tommy Guilfoyle

The week before the 1992 championship, Tommy Guilfoyle had a run in with a lawnmower. I don’t know if Tommy thought he was Robocop with metal hands or whether the lawnmower wouldn’t do what Tommy wanted it to. Either way, Tommy nearly lost a couple of fingers which meant he couldn’t lead the team out. Len Gaynor offered the captaincy to John Russell. Rooskey wasn’t interested. “Give it to one of the young fellas,” he said. Five days before the match, Gaynor came to me. - Anthony Daly, Dalo: My Autobiography

Two weeks ago at the qualifier double-header in Thurles, Anthony Daly bumped into Tommy Guilfoyle, and with the two of them now doing a bit in the media game, they took up a spot together at the back of the stand next to the press box.