Mayo's John Casey on the Oasis friendship and looking back in anger at '96

Were it not for being part of that Mayo team, John Casey might not have forged a long-standing friendship with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and his family.

ROYAL PAIN: Mayo's John Casey with his head in hands after All Ireland final defeat by Meath in 1996. Pic: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

If not every week, it’s every second week that John Casey thinks about the anguish of 1996. He has never watched back the All-Ireland final games against Meath. Probably never will.

His daughters have and asked him what the hell he was doing during the brawl in the replay. But for him the wound of defeat remains opened 30 years on.