'To the outside eye, it's stars appear like caricature leprechauns.
'Handpass it on ye amadán';
Comin' from the ballistic, nationalistic, sideline preachers.
Or as it were, the bainisteoir slash secondary school Irish teachers.'
The only thing that almost matches the excellence of Peter Curran's poem 'The Road to Croke Park' are the illustrations from Derek Doyle that accompany it.
The best compliment I can give is that the second I finished listening to it, I wanted to listen again. And again. It also reminded me Seamus O'Rourke's equally brilliant 'The Day Leitrim Played In Croke Park.'
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