With the news that Sky Sports are to show Irish Gaelic Football and Hurling matches I thought I would put up a few quotes from the great GAA radio commentator Micheal O' Muircheartaigh and his unique style of commentating....
Colin Corkery on the 45(yard line) lets go with the right boot. It's over the bar. This man shouldn't be playing football. He's made an almost Lazarus-like recovery from a heart condition. Lazarus was a great man but he couldn't kick points like Colin Corkery. The ball is kicked out by Declan O'Keeffe it's dropping......"
"1-5 to 0-8. Well from Lapland to the Antartic that's level scores in any man's language"
"Pat Fox has it on his hurley and is motoring well now....but here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail...I've seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park !"
"Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well."
"Sean Óg Ó Hailpín....his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold."
"Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation."
"Teddy looks at the ball....the ball looks at Teddy..."
"Anthony Lynch the Cork corner back will be the last person to let you down- his people are undertakers"
"....and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times' Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a news stand and I said 'I suppose ye wouldn't have the Kerryman would ye?' To which, the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me and he said 'do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?' He had both....so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet...."
"I see John O Donnell dispensing water on the sideline. Tipperary, sponsored by a water company. Cork, sponsored by a tae(tea) company. I wonder will they meet later for afternoon tae."
"He grabs the sliotar, he's on the 50....he's on the 40....he's on the 30..........he's on the ground"
"In the first half they played with the wind. In the second half they played with the ball".
"He kicks the ball lan san aer(up in the air), could've been a goal, could've been a point.......it went wide."
"Stephen Byrne with the puck out for Offaly....Stephen, one of 12....all but one are here to-day, the one that's missing is Mary, she's at home minding the house.....and the ball is dropping I lar na bpairce(in the middle of the field)...."
"How much injury time now is up to the referee and God. The referee is Pat Horan, God is God".
"Mark O'Leary for Tipperary runs in on goal. I stayed at his parents house in 1982...it's a goal!!
