John Lawler
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47 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
John Lawler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was busy gesturing to his charges, wholly oblivious to the camera, which was capturing his every move.
He appeared to be offering sticks of chewing gum to the players.
Consumed in the task, he unintentionally walked directly towards the camera.
He didn't seem to notice it.
In fact, he almost collided with it.
In what must only have been a split second, he peered forward, stared straight down the lens and abruptly sidestepped out of the frame.
The man was strangely familiar to me.
I looked to my left where my father sat, not slouched anymore, but perched on the edge of his seat, gobsmacked at what, or more precisely who, he'd just seen.
He hadn't set eyes on his father since September 1961.
We had just come face to face with the 1919 sub-goalie and 1926 Kildare GA chairman, Tom Lawler, my grandfather.
There he was, looking just as well turned out and youthful as the day he posed with his young bride, Catty, in 1931 for their wedding photograph.
And what happened in the match itself?
Well, Kildare should have won, but their star man, 1924 Olympic high jumper Larry Stanley, was knocked unconscious at the throw-in after a collision with a carryman's fist.
He was carted over to the sideline, where it said he was doused with a bucket of water.
Who knows, maybe my grandfather threw the bucket.
Anyway, once he revived, he went on to deliver his greatest ever display for the Shockgrass County.
But somehow they drew, and they went on to lose the replay in early October.
For his troubles, Stanley was left permanently deaf in one ear following the knockout blow.
Those were unforgiving times.
The 1926 final was later immortalised in a poem by Cather Savines' Sigurdsson Clifford, entitled The Ghost Train to Croke Park.
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