More to life than summer GAA demands

It’s exactly 20 years ago that Liam Silke’s uncle, Ray, captained Galway to the All-Ireland football title.

Liam’s father, Brian, is part of the current management team and with Mayo losing the last two All-Ireland finals, just like they did before Galway’s breakthrough in 1998, the stars may be aligning overhead.

Yet instead of resuming his place in the Galway defence and pitching for history this summer as expected, Silke, an AIB All-Ireland club winner with Corofin last month, will be in Boston instead.