Len Dineen - The voice of experience

Talk to Len Dineen, they said. There’ll be stories, they said. Well, the Limerickman, who recently retired after 40 years as a rugby commentator, settled in ...

1989: “The All Blacks were on tour and I was covering the game, so I went down to the old Jury’s in Cork to get an interview with one of them. Buck Shelford was the captain and when I got there he was having his steak in the dining room, but he agreed to an interview after his dinner.

“Now, the 1978 Munster team was having a function in the hotel the same evening, Moss Keane, Tony Ward, all of them together, having a drink, enjoying themselves.