The quiet obsessive who has become Kilcoo’s grandfather

On the wall of a diner on Derrylin’s main street, hangs a picture of two men, tracksuited and beaming.

When Mickey Moran and the late John Morrison were managing Leitrim, the café was their pitstop along the journey. They would put chat on the girls working and struck up a warm relationship. Within weeks, the word spread that this odd couple were there regularly and football obsessives around that corner of Fermanagh were always welcome to draw up a seat and take part in the football debate. One day, somebody took a camera and captured them and the gaiety they brought. It still hangs on the same spot.