‘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.

‘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.

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

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