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Like Dublin’s passing and shooting, Pillar will be badly missed

Tyrone fans - no more than a couple of hundred - headed to Croke Park on Saturday 16 August more in hope than expectation. Like many great events many more people will claim to have been there than actually were there.  

Fact is, if you were there, you’ll never forget the apocalyptic scenes that unfolded. The brooding grey blue sky, the rain lashed Hill, the sodden Dubs, the Croker lights making an August afternoon a winter’s night. On the green baize, a blur of of white and red and the handling, the passing by foot and hand, and those goals!

Commentary heard on Radio Tyrone from Saturday 16 August 2008:

“We have beaten Dublin in Croke Park!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Dublin! Dublin, birthplace of giants. Samuel Beckett, Roddy Doyle, Bertie Ahern, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Bono, Ronan Keating, Colin Farrell, Gay Byrne, Luke Kelly, Samantha Mumba, Jimmy Keaveney, Kevin Heffernan, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Niall Quinn, Brian O Driscoll, Padraig Harrington we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all. Bertie Ahern, Bertie Ahern can you hear me? I have a message to you: Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!” 

Oh yes. Well, my mama did tell me there’’d be days like this!

One Response to “Yea verily, the Blue Tide cast aside by waves of Red Hands”

1. Dom Says:
   August 29th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   I was going to buy one of your TShirts today until I rememberd the glee in which you reported this !

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