Moment in Time: ‘It could have kept going for another 30 yards after going over’

It's June 15, 2003. Laois are three points to the good against Dublin with two minutes of normal time to go in their Leinster semi-final when Pádraig Clancy takes to the skies. Brendan O'Brien takes up the story for the second instalment in our 'Moment in Time' series
Moment in Time: ‘It could have kept going for another 30 yards after going over’

It's June 15, 2003. Laois are three points to the good against Dublin with two minutes of normal time to go in their Leinster semi-final when Pádraig Clancy takes to the skies. Brendan O'Brien takes up the story for the second instalment in our 'Moment in Time' series

The first thing to say here is that Pádraig Clancy’s jaw-dropping 68th-minute point wasn’t the only score for the ages that Laois produced that day. Tommy Lyons could only shake his head afterwards and rue how Mick O’Dwyer’s lads had fired them over from all angles.

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