Muldoon: I’m grateful to have got this long out of it

Peter Bracken, the former Munster, Connacht and Wasps prop, tells a great story about one of his first encounters playing alongside John Muldoon for Galwegians.

They travelled to Limerick to take on the all-conquering Shannon side and late in the game at Thomond Park, which Galwegians surprisingly won, Muldoon smashed Mick Galwey and forced a penalty.

It was in the latter days of Galwey’s stellar career and young gun Muldoon rubbed salt in it by tapping the former Irish star on the chest and said ‘well done Gaillimh’, thereby sparking a row which led to a bit of a brawl.