'Babs Keating met a Tipperary policeman who got us in to pay our respects to Bobby Kennedy'

The Tipperary and New York hurlers joined the thousands who paid tribute to the assassinated US presidential candidate, Bobby Kennedy, in the summer of 1968

People are shown in a line extending from E. 53rd Street and south along Park Avenue, waiting to view casket of Robert F. Kennedy lying in state in St. Patrick's Cathedral, four blocks away.

New York turned John Costigan into an unlikely barman.

Former Tipperary hurler, former Tipperary County Board chairman, he laughs at the memory, thumbs the Pioneer pin in his jacket lapel. “I’m sure it was a big gallery at home in Clonakenny,” Costigan reflects. “That lad a barman! Sure he never took a drink in his life… But I enjoyed the experience, five summers from 1969 to 1973 or ’74. Teaching in Templemore CBS, I had the summer off, obviously.”