Three decades making the big calls for Canning

HE trained to be a newsreader, but he never announced a headline.

Three decades making the big calls for Canning

Ger Canning was a schoolteacher when RTÉ producer Pat O’Donovan invited him to commentate on the 1978 Cork County Hurling final.

Some baptism. The Glen v Blackrock. 33,000 spectators.

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