How the boots that shook Croke Park went to highest bidder for £30,000

Photo: INPHO/ Tom Honan

Owen Mulligan (Tyrone), Adidas Predator. 2005 All-Ireland quarter-final v Dublin.

“I was always a massive Adidas Predator fan. When I asked my mother and father for a pair of boots I was told I’d have to work for them. The year Predator came out they were £90 and I remember asking my father could I have the money and he said, ‘Would you catch yourself on? It’s not the boots, it’s the man inside them.’