‘I’d stay up all night to watch him hurl’: The Carlow hurler who wowed Christy Ring

The youngest in a family must expect ghosts, writes PM O'Sullivan. Moling Morrissey sits looking at a photograph of six brothers, lined up and arrayed in hurling jerseys. Pat… John… Eddie… Mick… Himself… Luke… Himself… The only one left.

The youngest in a family must expect ghosts.

Brothers ‘n hurls, the Morrissey brothers in 1960 (l-r): Pat, John, Eddie, Mick, Moling, and Luke.