. Picture: Eddie O'Hare At times we probably felt we should both be on the team!“It didn’t come between us, certainly. She and John were organising their wedding that summer also.“John was quiet, so he certainly wouldn’t have been ranting and raving,” she says. If it didn’t work out you always knew that behind you was Kerinsy, covering.”His widow Anne remembers 1990 not just for the double. “Colman said, ‘the Meath lads are in the Lough Tavern’, and I went over and thanked them for coming down.”They still stay in touch: “Robbie O’Malley was only on the phone the other day,” she adds. The role included an annual salary of £300 and a house in Dublin with free electricity.
“But it was an All-Ireland final at the same time.
He wasn’t afraid to get hurt.“He ended up with two All-Stars. Name Index, Roscommon Town cemetery gravestones Over the last few years I have photographed the gravestones in Roscommon town cemetery. Rome2rio is a door-to-door travel information and booking engine, helping you get to and from any location in the world. The latest news and views from Cork ... Cork's loss to Meath in the 1990 league fuelled September glory . There was no love lost but they all came.“I came out of the funeral home and I saw them lining up... it was unreal.”Corrigan can still recall the silence as the cortege went to the church in the Lough.“You could have heard a pin drop. “They were a huge part of it, after all.”Latest news from the world of sport, along with the best in opinion from our He’d be hugely proud of the way they’ve turned out and there’s huge credit due to her. . I have then indexed the names that I saw on these gravestones – The following table is a gravestone index to the names on the stones. There was pressure.“When the hurlers won it was a huge boost to them, but it put the pressure on too. All Ireland Under 16 A Championships Year Winners Runners-Up 2019 Galway Meath 2018 Galway Kerry 2017 Galway Cork 2016 Kerry Dublin 2015 Kerry Galway 2014
There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about him, to be honest.”“It’s good to remember them,” says John Cleary. “A man of very few words.“He was 30 years ahead of his time in terms of placing his kick-outs. All of them.”“I think it brought things home to everyone, that it was just a game. There were times when Mick was there and doing well, and I had no complaints about him playing, and the same for myself.“We’d come up together in school and so on, we’d been on the same minor teams with Cork, so it wasn’t that we met each other when we fell in with the seniors.”Cleary and McCarthy often roomed together when Cork travelled. And McEntee said, ‘do you think I’d have it any other way?’“We drove up in the dead of night. At the other end, Niall Cahalane and Colm O’Rourke got to know one another that bit more with the pair yellow-carded early in the second half before the Cork defender departed the scene during the last quarter after clashing with O’Rourke once more.Despite all the niggle, it proved an entertaining game of football with Meath deserving of their victory despite having only a slender one-point lead at the interval, having played with the wind.Cork struggled to keep hold of the Meath attack, falling 0-6 to 0-2 behind at the end of the opening quarter, but they got to grips and turned around just 0-8 to 0-7 adrift.Tompkins’ free-taking and a couple of fine O’Driscoll points brought Cork right back into contention.The early minutes of the second-half had a major bearing on the outcome as Cork missed a glorious chance of snatching a goal and the advantage.McCarthy won a great ball from McGrath, rounded new keeper Donal Smyth and look set to plant the ball into the empty net only for the custodian to somehow get back and divert the ball over the bar.A rare mistake from a John Kerins short kick-out led to a Brian Stafford point as Meath began to take control once again, edging 0-12 to 0-9 in front entering the closing quarter.Cork, now with only 14 players, would add one more point to their tally as Meath closed out the game without any undue difficulty.The likes of Colman Corrigan, Barry Coffey and John Cleary didn’t play that day and, of course, five months later the counties met again in the most important date in the football calendar.Again, there were no goals, but the result was different.Subs: D Culloty for Nation and P Hayes for O’Driscoll. . He could have had four or five. It is. There were tears on the way up and tears on the way down.”That was May 10, 2001. 300 years of Irish Newspapers are available through the Irish Newspaper archives gateway. Anne remembers the infamous trip to the Canaries, when a small island wasn’t quite big enough for the Cork and Meath teams which landed there at the same time: “If they were on one side of the street, we were on the other. The role also included being the manager of Croke Park. Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter to be in with a chance to win prizes and see what's coming up in The EchoMeath's Colm O'Rourke and Cork's Niall Cahalane went hard at it in the 1990 league semi-final. McCarthy was going well in 1990 and impressed in the semi-final against Roscommon. Picture: Ray McManus/SPORTSFILEBishopstown's Paul McGrath is tackled by UCC's Seamus Downey. He was the Cluxton of yesterday, really.”“A cool character,” says Cahalane. “We’ve always gotten together at Christmas, for instance, and we all get on.Stephen McCarthy, Michael’s son, is a case in point.“He wouldn’t have known a lot of us,” says Corrigan.“He went to England to play soccer for Sunderland at a young age, but we wanted to make sure he was at a Mass we had last year for the two lads before an anniversary dinner.“We asked him to do one of the readings, which can be daunting, particularly when you don’t really know the people in front of you, but he was outstanding.“Remember, he was only two when he lost his father. Find all the transport options for your trip from Roscommon to Cork right here. What a job she did.”Anne Kerins says talk of the double reminds her of a great summer.“It’s sad, of course. I got a rollicking after that. It was that bad at the time.”There was a funeral in Macroom in 2001 and Corrigan met Kerins in Brown’s bar in the town.