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Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Dies

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  • #52
    gym_imposter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭gym_imposter


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303768#Comment_122303768

    He was high pitched all of the time,his voice was unbearable



  • #53
    megadodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭megadodge


    Very sad news.

    There's not much I can add to some wonderfully articulated posts about a wonderul commentator and wonderful man.

    When asked once what was the secret to being a good commentator, he said "commentate on what you see… not what you'd like to see".

    Very wise words. RIP.



  • #54
    megadodge
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303749#Comment_122303749

    Ger doesn't even know the basic rules of the game, after commentating on it for nearly 40 years. And his pathetic fake posh accent really grates.

    He's truly AWFUL !!!

    But to have to read someone say he's better than Micheál on a commemorative thread is just wrong on so many levels.



  • #55
    Charlie69
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122304265#Comment_122304265

    Agree 100%



  • #56
    gormdubhgorm
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122304265#Comment_122304265

    I would say that was wind up. Micheál had a great turn of phrase. Ger Canning is not fit to be spoken about in the same class as O'Muircheartaigh. You wouldn't get Micheál putting on an affected accent saying things like "daybooh".

    Micheál had a gift of taking anyone as he found them, no matter who they were. Not many people can say that.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #57
    tayto lover
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    The first All Ireland Football Final he attended was in 1948 when Cavan beat Mayo. He'd gave been some age when Cavan win their next. RIP legend.



  • #58
    acequion
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    Being from Kerry myself I regarded him as one of or greatest county treasures. A legend and a true gentleman. He was also the exact same age as my dear mother, who has been inspired by his spirit, positivity and grace in advanced old age and she feels like she's lost her role model as she, god willing, soon turns 94.

    Very sad news. RIP dear statesman and thank you for the memories.



  • #59
    sprucemoose
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302717#Comment_122302717

    that honestly might be one of the best videos to have ever graced the internet



  • #60
    C4000
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    Just watching the 1996 all ireland final on YouTube with Micheal's commentary over it. His speed of delivery allowed him to describe literally every puck and possession of the game, in between giving details of players' professions (it's the chicken farmer against the banker), quoting poetry, breaking into the occasional burst of Irish and sending well wishes to troops in the Lebanon.

    As I heard Dara O Cinnede say earlier, people would elect to follow matches via radio rather than TV, as with Micheal commentating, you got a better view on the radio.

    I remember in later years, RTE decided to start putting co commentators on air with Micheal, I don't think any of them ever got a word in edgewise as you might as well have tried to interrupt a hurricane when the great man was in full flow.

    Hopefully the GAA will have a suitable commemoration planned at the matches this weekend. A minute's silence wouldn't seem apt in this instance.



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  • #61
    SophieLockhart
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    A genius, pure and simple.

    nearly 94 long years and yet such are the whims of fate, just missing out by 25 days on the first 5 in a row in the most beautiful game… maybe



  • #62
    evolvingtipperary101
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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxCAWRj8VA&pp=ygUobWljaGFlbCBvIG11aXJjaGVhcnRhaWdoIGJlc3QgY29tbWVudGFyeQ%3D%3D

    RIP …



  • #63
    Madd Finn
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭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.



  • #64
    ShamoBuc
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,314 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #65
    Beechwoodspark
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    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.



  • #66
    gormdubhgorm
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    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!"

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • #67
    gormdubhgorm
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    If anyone is interested in doing some reading.

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

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #68
    Jack Daw
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    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.



  • #69
    gym_imposter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307354#Comment_122307354

    No doubt he was well liked



  • #70
    MattressRick
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    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.



  • #71
    Rosita
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    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.



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  • #72
    gormdubhgorm
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    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

    Post edited by gormdubhgorm on

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #73
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,871 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #74
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,290 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #75
    robbiezero
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