Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Dies

evolvingtipperary101

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxCAWRj8VA&pp=ygUobWljaGFlbCBvIG11aXJjaGVhcnRhaWdoIGJlc3QgY29tbWVudGFyeQ%3D%3D

RIP …

Madd Finn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122301852#Comment_122301852

Did this actually happen? I've seen the quote several times but never seen or heard an audio or video clip. Please tell me/show me that this is not an urban myth.

ShamoBuc

I reckon a minute of his famous commentaries blasting over the speakers would be better than a minutes silence- silence wasn't exactly his thing.

Beechwoodspark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122304265#Comment_122304265

Not saying Ger is better overall - of course when you consider the 2 careers, he’s not. No one can measure up to MOM.

I am a huge MOM man, always have been.

He was able to paint word pictures over radio waves, akin to a master water colour painter.

He could make a boring, bog standard rubbish match sound like a clash of Titans!!

BUT … Ger C is EXCELLENT, just a different style of commentator.

Sometimes MOM could go a bit OTT on naming everyone in the parish, or side comments on cows in a field beside the match, or people listening in Vietnam, Timbuktu, or Caracas - you get the idea…

Now I liked all those additions MOM added.

BUT - Ger C to give him his due, keeps the focus and attention on the action on the pitch - a master wordsmith. I never met him but he comes across as a pure and utter gent.

An expert judge of how a match is going and expert on all things GAA.

Bit disrespectful to slate Ger and say he doesn’t know the rules - c’mon now.

This is Ger Canning we are talking about it, the senior GAA commentator of RTÉ since MOM handed up his microphone.

But Unfortunately for GC, he will always be compared with the greatest ever and come off second best.

gormdubhgorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122304849#Comment_122304849

Ger Canning ? Come on Marty is better than him that is not saying much. Canning just commentates which ever way he thinks that the games is going to go to, make it sound like he is knowledgeable. In other words the team that is ahead.

Canning a "wordsmith"? I am baffled by that. Canning's vocabulary/phraseology seems extremely limited. It is the use of repetitive adjectives coupled with a "put on" accent in an attempt to try and sound erudite.

Has Canning ever come out with anything as memorable as the following ?

"Seán Óg Ó hAilpín: his father’s from Fermanagh, his mother’s from Fiji. Neither a hurling stronghold"

"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!"

gormdubhgorm

If anyone is interested in doing some reading.

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh's autobiography is titled "From Dún Síon to Croke Park" (2004)

Jack Daw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303758#Comment_122303758

Part of O'Hehir's appeal I would have thought.There was a natural excitement to his voice.

I still think his commentary of Seamus Darby's goal in 1982 is one of the greatest pieces of commentary of all time in any sport, it really adds to the moment.

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307354#Comment_122307354

No doubt he was well liked

MattressRick

When Micheal O'Hehir commentated on matches on TV in the 70s or 80s was the commentary also simultaneously broadcast on radio?

I remember seeing clips of matches and he left passages of play uncommentated, it always struck me as bad commentating if it was going out to people on the radio.

Jack O'Shea's brilliant goal against Offaly being an example when the Kerry team worked the ball brilliantly up the field. O'Hehir just finished it off with "and a goal". Yet it was a top corner finish from a good bit out!

So O'Hehir to me seemed overrated.

Rosita

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122304849#Comment_122304849

Did he actually comment on cows in a field? Just that you've mentioned it twice.

gormdubhgorm

Micheál describing his last All Ireland Final Day as a commentator to Des Cahill on 19th September 2010 (Cork v Down)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqkVkt0P74M

Beechwoodspark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122314315#Comment_122314315

Never heard the quote myself but It was discussed at some length, with lots of mirth, on liveline the day he passed away.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122312911#Comment_122312911

He was a commentator of his time. To me he sounds poor by modern standards and has that annoying "British Pathe" style of speech but that's what was in vogue at the time.

robbiezero

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