TP (second left, bottom row) recalls: “The main occupation we had was football, football and football. Cavan were in every All-Ireland semi-final for as long as I could remember right through my youth and so we kicked a ball up and down the main street, because cars were so scarce in those days. We would have one goal in one archway and the other goal in another archway. We made a ball out of paper tied with string and we would spend whole hours of the evening just kicking this ball around.
I was fairly useful at the football. I was on the junior team that won the Ranafast Cup when I was about fifteen and then I was on the senior team and won a McRory Cup Medal. I played the All-Ireland Colleges final in 1948 and a lot of that team formed the basis of the 1952 team that went on to beat Meath in the All-Ireland Final in Croke Park.”
(TP in conversation with John Quinn in 1994 for the RTE radio programme, ‘My Education’)
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