Even after 'tough' year, Timmy McCarthy's love for basketball shines on RTÉ

In May 2023 he left a bed in the Galway Clinic to go up to Dun Laoghaire to be inducted into the Basketball Ireland Hall of Fame. The following morning he returned to that bed in Galway. He had been so frail at the banquet, some friends feared that it could be the last time they’d see him.

BOOMSHAKALAKA: Timmy McCarthy being inducted into the Basketball Ireland Hall of Fame in 2023. Picture: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

The other day, on the eve of Team USA’s epic Olympic men’s semi-final against Serbia, The New York Times profiled a basketball sensation.

You might have expected such treatment to have been reserved for a LeBron James, still balling at an extraordinary level at 39, his beard more grey now than it is dark.