‘I have never been as proud of the lads’

Derek McGrath is as talkative as ever but the toll of the day is clear.

‘I have never been as proud of the lads’
Mon, 04 Sep, 2017 - 01:00
Brendan O'Brien, Croke Park

For 14 minutes he sits and answers questions with his trademark honesty but he rubs his eyes and his head slowly as he talks like Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

The words come in fits and starts as he comes to terms with the battle lost.

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