‘We are and will always be thinking of Tony Keady’

Long after they stepped from the field and handed back the maroon shirt, Galway’s celebrated men of ’87 and ’88 continue to look out for one another.

On Monday night, Tony Keady’s team-mates came together at the Loughrea Hotel and agreed upon a course of action which they hope will help Tony’s wife, Margaret, and his four children in the years to come.

It wasn’t an impromptu meeting. Most had been in regular contact since the passing of the two-time All-Ireland winning centre-back as to how they could lend a hand. Even hurlers who wore the maroon in the years subsequent to Keady were anxious to do something. Anything.