One of the greatest hurling footballing people that I ever met was a neighbour of mine, a young boy of about 10 years of age who went around the village commentating on imaginary games using the voice of Michael O’Hehir. we used to follow this boy around as he went about his daily work including collecting buckets of fresh spring water from the local pump, this young boy could name every single player that played for each of these imaginary teams, he would give a brief history and some of the players their background even their personalities, he told about the ref, the thousands of people attending those games. To us young children it was like being at a hurling or football All-Ireland final, I do not know what became of the young boy from our village as later I left to wonder though foreign lands but I never forget the young boy who brought films into our minds about the greatest games and players that never really existed in real life
One of the greatest hurling footballing people that I ever met was a neighbour of mine, a young boy of about 10 years of age who went around the village commentating on imaginary games using the voice of Michael O’Hehir. we used to follow this boy around as he went about his daily work including collecting buckets of fresh spring water from the local pump, this young boy could name every single player that played for each of these imaginary teams, he would give a brief history and some of the players their background even their personalities, he told about the ref, the thousands of people attending those games. To us young children it was like being at a hurling or football All-Ireland final, I do not know what became of the young boy from our village as later I left to wonder though foreign lands but I never forget the young boy who brought films into our minds about the greatest games and players that never really existed in real life
Saw him many times as a child...Great hurler playing the greatest game on earth. R.I.P. Jimmy
Had the pleasure of seeing him play in the 2nd half of his career. A genius of the ash, caused so much heartache for my Limerick.
Rip
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