'The craic just seemed to follow him around' - Tomás Ó Sé on his uncle Páidí

I wouldn’t have boasted about him in school or anything, but I was hugely proud of him. His greatest lesson to us was to win with grace and to lose with grace, and not to be blowing your own trumpet.
'The craic just seemed to follow him around' - Tomás Ó Sé on his uncle Páidí

28 September 1997; Kerry manager Páidí Ó Sé celebrates following the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final at Croke Park, Dublin. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
28 September 1997; Kerry manager Páidí Ó Sé celebrates following the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final at Croke Park, Dublin. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile

In this week's Friday Book club, we publish an extract from The White Heat where Tomás Ó Sé recalls the reputation, and roguery, of his famous uncle Páidí.

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