Every thing. Every day. How Doon reached their moon with McGrath
Interview: When you’re as interesting a man as Derek McGrath, there are left-field interests like writing, positive psychology, and musical theatre. But nothing beats the floodlights on in the club field come November.
During Derek McGrath’s time with Waterford they had a mantra: Gach rud, gach lá. Every day they’d give everything. And no one personified it more than McGrath himself. Every fibre of his being was invested in that project, until he accepted in the summer of 2018 it was impossible to maintain a mindset of gach rud, gach lá, gach bliain.
So he stepped away from it, and then whenever he did step back into a circle of hurling men, it wouldn’t have been quite with all 10 toes in. Maybe eight, maybe nine, but not all ten.
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