'Any day I hurled with Galway was a happy day. I always believed.'

Jimmy Duggan is one of three Galway forwards still alive from the controversial All-Ireland final with Cork in 1953. "It’s great that three of us are still around. But I don’t think they’ll be looking for us to help out at the weekend!” 

Father and son: Séamus Duggan and Jimmy Duggan in 2022. 

Jimmy Duggan is getting swept away, carried out on to St Brendan’s Park, Birr.

No resistance made. The young man believes Galway are in the All-Ireland Senior Final. He thinks his native county has seen off Kilkenny by two points, that they will now meet Cork or Antrim. Duggan had just captained a Minor team that beat Dublin by two goals in their All-Ireland semi final.