Diehard Cork fan Pat Murray has 'never seen anything' like Troy Parrott's 'unbelievable' performance 

When you consider that Pat was on the terrace watching when Johnny Giles made his international debut against Sweden in 1959, that's some barometer
Ireland fans Pat Murray, from Glasheen in Cork, and Marina Claffey, from The Lough, outside the James Joyce pub in Budapest on Sunday night.

Ireland fans Pat Murray, from Glasheen in Cork, and Marina Claffey, from The Lough, outside the James Joyce pub in Budapest on Sunday night.

"Unbelievable. It'll be hard to beat that."

In the James Joyce Pub in Podmaniczky Square, Budapest, on Sunday evening, 87-year-old Pat Murray from Glasheen in Cork was trying to comprehend what he had just seen. Back home in Ireland, there's a similar beautiful bewilderment.

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