Christy Ring's Ballinskelligs holidays: 'He was as down to earth as ourselves'

Donal Cronin gives the background to Christy Ring’s summers in south Kerry

Christy Ring: Captain at rest: low-key celebrations after the 1946 All-Ireland win.

Ballinskelligs is a remote spot, clinging to the coast at the southern tip of the Iveragh Peninsula and overlooking the Atlantic.

Go back a couple of decades, however, and it was even more isolated. Donal Cronin grew up there, and the setting was spartan.