Denis Coughlan on Christy Ring: ‘He was very upset. He went pale when the hurley broke’

GLEN MEN: Ring and his Glen colleague and friend, Denis Coughlan. “He meant the world to me, he really did,” Coughlan says now.

When I was a child, people like Jack Lynch and Christy Ring were gods.

I remember Garvey’s Bridge, it was halfway between Blackpool and where the old Glen Rovers pitch used to be — in the country, really.