Seamus Darby: ‘Tommy and I would talk about everything except the goal’

Offaly's Johnny Mooney and Seamus Darby celebrate. Photo: INPHO/Billy Stickland

In an extract from his autobiography ‘About That Goal’, Offaly great Seamus Darby reveals his friendship with the man whose life he changed forever, Tommy Doyle.

THE SHOT THAT STUNNED A NATION: Seamus Darby scores Offaly’s match-winning goal against Kerry in the 1982 All-Ireland final, a late, late intervention that denied the Kingdom a famous five in a row. While Darby was hailed as a hero, Kerry’s Tommy Doyle was cast as the villain of the piece for allowing the Offaly man the chance to alter history. Picture: Colman Doyle