Happy 90th Micheál. How we could do with your summer magic now

It is almost ten years since Micheál said goodbye to sports commentary but his phenomenal contribution to Irish sporting summers didn’t stop there.

GAELTACHT ABÚ: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh congratulates Dara Ó Cinnéide on Gaeltacht’s success in the 2017 Comórtas in Mayo.

The much loved Kerryman, Con Houlihan, was fond of Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and his immortal lines "in those streets and fields where you grew up, there you will live and there you will die."

Never did those words ring as true as when listening to Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s deeply personal interview with my colleague, Helen Ní Shé, on our An Saol ó Dheas programme earlier this week on Raidió na Gaeltachta.