Conor McKeon

They were the most...

screwed now different from normal that just lacks punch it does a bit can we start again what were you saying but they're absolutely outliers in the history of all Ireland finals for the circumstances in which they're played and nobody really speaks about them anymore

I think we were just so keen to move on.

I remember the day of the football final getting to Crow Park and bumping into a guy that I know and his dad.

And they literally just walked up to Crow Park because it was like, look, there's an All-Ireland final on.

We want to be near the stadium.

And then we saw this fella and he was running around Crow Park in a Mayo jersey with like...

a fake Sam Maguire not like a good replica like a cardboard cutout of Sam Maguire and he was running around it and I remember thinking this is just crazy because this is an All-Ireland final this is like a great cultural event in Irish history and

And for these people, and like it's apocalyptic looking, like it's completely, there's nobody around.

Yeah, but for some reason what I'm saying is that the energy of the All-Ireland Final was still there.

Oh, was it, yeah?

It was still there in some weird undetectable way.

Like in the six senses that we express and feel everything through, it was something beyond that.

And you could kind of feel it in the air, you know?

I remember seeing the play a few years ago in the Abbey and it was a, it was a, a,

it was a play that was written about a true, like a true story that happened that on 9-11, when a load of planes were grounded, they were grounded in this small sort of rural airport, an isolated place that's just outside Canada.

And people had to stay there for two or three days.

And because they were all in this kind of closed space, like there was some people ended up kind of keeping in touch and some of them got married and had kids.

And I remember thinking, we went to see the play and it was like, the 9-11 thing is only the,

the ignition for the story that happened.