In 2005, Irish sports fans voted for their most memorable GAA moments of all-time.
Topping the poll was Michael Donnellan's solo run during the 1998 All-Ireland between Galway and Kildare.
At number two came Maurice Fitzgerald's equalising sideline point during the 2001 All-Ireland quarter-final between Kerry and Dublin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEONcn_4XM
At the time of the game, Bryan Sheehan - the player widely recognised as the best free kick taker in the game right now - was a 16-year-old. He also plays for the same club as Fitzgerald, St. Mary's Cahirciveen. Fitzgerald actually managed the St. Mary's side - which featured Sheehan - that won this year's All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship.
The relationship between the two goes back a long way. In the days leading up to that 2001 quarter-final, Fitzgerald requested that Sheehan aid him in preparation to face Dublin.
Little did he know that he would witness Fitzgerald practising what would become one of the most iconic Gaelic football scores of all time.
Sheehan told The Irish Sun:
This is a good story! Maurice asked me to go for a kick-around the Wednesday night before the game.
I was in the goal kicking it out to him.
He went out to the stand side, outside of his boot and over the bar.
Over to the other side and did the exact same thing with his left leg.
Sheehan was not at Semple Stadium on that Saturday. On holiday with his family, he didn't even get to see the game live on TV. It was not until he returned home that he realised Fitzgerald had recreated - for a much larger audience - what he has seen three days before the game.
The uncle rang when we were on holidays, and said Maurice kicked a screamer from the sideline to draw the game.
When we came back and watched the video, I said, ‘He did that on Wednesday before we left!’ That man put in so much practice.
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