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Conor McKeown

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1883 total appearances

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

You can't outrun them.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I'm not taking any lectures about parenting from somebody who went back playing football when he was 40 and somebody who watches 17 hours of sport a day.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

It's called annual leave, mate.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

All I ever wanted to do was just hydrate members of my family.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I train.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

Whereas you two went out of your way.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I train after they're asleep.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I was actually trying, I was thinking there, jeez, there's an election coming up.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

There's 13,000 people in this race.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

There's at least eight of them are going to say, I actually went past Bertie Hearn on the way there.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I think that's a vote getter now if you ever...

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

decides to go for anything else.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

I remember somebody in here did a piece about one of the Healy Rays or maybe both of the Healy Rays and went back through some of their days in office and it consisted of driving up to Dublin to check in so you get your expenses and then driving back to, like there was a funeral in Cullaraglan and that was

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

Yeah, I think the most interesting thing to take away from this world championship is the degree to which the crowd did get behind.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

Like, not the player that we expected in the world final.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

And I think it's because, like, you know, this is a big thing in sports and it was a thing that happened in women's golf in particular when you have, like, there's 11 Chinese players in this year's world championship and Wu Yi doesn't speak English.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

And so it can be hard to kind of put your personality across

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

when you're off the table.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

But snooker is one of these sports where like the vast majority of why you like players is because of what they do on the table.

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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury

That's when their personality comes across in terms of the kind of shots they take on and everything else.