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Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Dies

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    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 6,140 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Ah RIP



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    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    There can be a lot of bitching and moaning in this thread but I think there's no doubt that everyone will agree that the GAA have lost a legend today. I only met him once (at a book signing) and I was late, after the official closing time and I chanced my arm going up to the table anyway. His "minder" was having none of it but Mícheál brushed him aside and signed anyway, and then engaged in a chat for a good 5 minutes. They say never meet your heroes but this lad was an absolute gentleman.

    May he rest in peace.



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    SharkMX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭SharkMX


    Mod Edit

    Warning issued.

    Post edited by ShamoBuc on


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    tobefrank321
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    Ah no. A great Gael, represented Kerry and the GAA so well down the years.

    Trained the Dublin based players of the great Kerry team of 1970s.

    And a wonderful story teller.

    A big loss.



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    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    A poet of GAA broadcasting. Unsurpassed in his breath of knowledge and love for Gaelic games. There'd want to be a statue of him outside Croke Park.

    RIP



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    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    That's sad news. RIP. A great voice and a great commentator. And always came across as a truly humble man.



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    Hooked
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Hooked


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301484#Comment_122301484

    Spot on.

    "His father's from Fiji and his mother's from Fermanagh, neither a hurling stronghold."

    The voice of the GAA

    RIP Micheál



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    sliabh 1956
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭sliabh 1956


    Im of an age that grew up before the advent of GAA on TV . Many the Sundays he made me imagine I was in Thurles,Hyde Park or Clones. What a voice and commentator flipping between the game and people he met on the way to the Match or the Hawthorns late in blooming . A lovely lovely man RIP



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    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    An absolute gentleman and wonderful ambassador for Ireland and its culture.

    Rest in peace

    To thine own self be true



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    breezy1985
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    Legends like him are so ever present that you forget they are growing old the same as the rest of us. I couldn't believe he retired 14 years ago now.



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    batman75
    Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭batman75


    A broadcasting titan. Our greatest ever along with Michael O'Hehir. Legendary Kerryman. Gone but never to be forgotten. A long life well lived. The first of three legendary Kerryman of his generation indelibly tied to the GAA to pass on. Rest in peace Michael.



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    fatherted1969
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭fatherted1969


    Up there with Michael O Hehir as a commentator. Some loss to gaa, what a legend



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    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,168 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    What is there to be said; simply the greatest Gael of our generation.

    He should be rendered the highest civilian honours permissible, by the State and by the GAA, for all the colour and infectious joy he brought to millions. Literally millions.

    Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís.



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    pawdee
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭pawdee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301469#Comment_122301469

    Good man. No point in being thick without showing it I suppose.



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    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,571 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Very sad, but he reached a good age. Lovely man and a legendary commentator, the quintessential commentator for me and many others. A great ambassador for Ireland, the Irish language and culture. RIP Mícheál. He could have and had the qualities to run for President of Ireland.

    Mícheál now shares his anniversary with another famous Michael. Today is the 15th anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson.

    And now sadly Tommie Gorman.

    Post edited by sligeach on


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    Mad about baa baas
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    Rip..he could make a bad match sound good..I'm not old enough to remember Michael o hehir so to me he was by far the best I heard.National treasure is an overused term but he most definitely was one.He could have read the phone book and made it interesting.

    Even the clip of him making a sandwich a few years back made you want to eat one..



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    StormForce13
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭StormForce13


    Credit to the RTE lunchtime news for leading with his death and relegating both Ireland's new EU Commissioner and the Aer Lingus pilots to second and third place in the headlines. For once they have got their priorities right!



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    Oscar_Madison
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301467#Comment_122301467

    Yeah I may well have been at the same book signing- except I waited outside Eason’s O”Connell st about 5 mins before his advertised book signing was about to commence- I had book in hand and who did I see walk up the street to the steps of Easons only MO’M- a true gent, he signed and dedicated the book, had a few words and yes, his minders were in a right huff as others then started to gather - probably saved myself an hour queuing that day😀



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    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 6,012 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Pat Fox has it on his hurl 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!

    RIP to a legend



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    dinjo99
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭dinjo99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301469#Comment_122301469

    Hardly his fault if you have a problem with the beautiful surname he was born with.

    Slán leat, Mícheál, Laoch ar Lár.



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    Choochtown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Choochtown


    Had the privilege of meeting this man on only one occasion. He agreed to come and officially launch an underage activity week that our club were running. Unfortunately, as it turned out, the date clashed with a commentary gig he had at Croke Park but he said no worries he'd call into us (Midlands) on his way home!

    Micheál was well into his 70s at this stage and was in the middle of a long journey home after a day's work. But nothing was too much trouble for him. He stayed for hours chatting, reminiscing, telling stories etc. We got him a small gift and tried to pay him something for his time/ petrol money. He refused any cash and was visibly and genuinely moved by the gift.

    An absolute gentleman. RIP



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    technocrat
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭technocrat


    He grabs the sliothar, he’s on the 50! He’s on the 40! He’s on the 30… he’s on the ground!

    🤣



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    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,069 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Shocked hearing this today. Very sad a true Irish legend is gone



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    TinyMuffin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    we used turn down the telly and turn up the radio for the commentary. No delay back then.

    RIP.



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    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,675 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    A legend, a gentleman to his core and a true Gael.



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    MacDanger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    RIP Micheal, sad to see him gone



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    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,442 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Rip

    One of the greats of the GAA and always a pleasure to listen too. Pity never heard him announce 'Waterford as all Ireland hurling champions'

    Sad day for RTE as a whole with Tommie O Gorman also passing away



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    gym_imposter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301592#Comment_122301592

    Miles better than Michael o Hehir



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    gym_imposter
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    Can't believe Tommy Gorman was only sixty eight, he looked that the time of the good friday agreement



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    Dogsdodogsstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Dogsdodogsstuff


    ah that’s genuinely sad news, he’s just always been part of Gaa folklore. Made every game sound like the greatest game ever. RIP



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