When Declan Daly 'delivered' special cup joy for Cork City

In those years sport in the city was at the peak of its ecumenism. An average punter over an average weekend might take in a match in the Park, Turner's Cross, Neptune Stadium and Temple Hill.

GLORY DAYSl Cork City captain Declan Daly celebrates with the 1998 FAI Cup © INPHO/Patrick Bolger

How long is it since Cork City won their first FAI Cup? Well, how old is Sophie Daly now?

Declan Daly was team captain that year, just as he had been five years earlier when they brought the 1992-93 league title back to Leeside. On a team full of leaders, he was the leader, just like his namesake Anthony with the Clare hurlers in those days. But as the team bus headed up to Dublin for that Cup final against Damien Richardson’s all-dazzling Shelbourne, he wasn’t on it. He had stayed back with his wife Susan who was expecting to give birth to their first any hour.