Shane Warne played Croke Park once. He’d have been as surprised as anyone to find this out, if only the few of us who were watching had ever been lucky enough to get to tell him. But he did and we couldn’t take our eyes off him.
It was the summer of 2005 and the GAA season was coming to its apex. We were getting to that point in the summer where the privilege of getting to cover the games for a living starts to pickle ever so slightly and you only half-joke about bringing a sleeping bag to Croke Park along with your laptop.
Saturday was Dublin v Tyrone in football – the one with Owen Mulligan’s goal. Sunday was Cork v Clare in hurling – the …
- March 7, 2022
