When the Bomber asked, how could New York millionaire Maurice Regan refuse his native Kerry?

Millionaire New York business man Maurice Regan was a friendly face for Kerry GAA when they started going trans Atlantic to get them out of a financial hole with their proposed Centre of Excellence

New York-based Kerryman Maurice Regan, founder of leading construction firm JT Magen and a long-time supporter of Kerry GAA, visits the Kerry GAA Centre of Excellence in Currans, Co. Kerry

SITTING across the board room table in his Manhattan corporate HQ is a bearded, hulking man looking for big money off Maurice Regan, the hard-nosed New York business man and developer.

Regan (60), raised in north Kerry, has faced down union muscle and construction leaders around the five boroughs but knows, in this moment, he’s a beaten docket.