The boys of summer

THEY are the boys of the 60s who have become men in their 60s but, when they get together in a room even 40 years on, there is still the warming afterglow of what must have seemed, at one time, like the endless summer of their youth.

The great Shamrock Rovers team which won six FAI Cups in a row between 1964 and 1969 were honoured this week in Dublin at a ‘Sporting Legends’ dinner hosted by the Association of Sports Journalists in Ireland and Lucozade Sport.

The Hoops used just 31 players throughout those six finals, 17 of whom went on to gain international honours with the Republic of Ireland.