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Larry O'Gorman

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1318 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

But to me, you know, we have, as I said, we have heroes in our own club and we had a great guy named Kevin Murphy.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

I always speak about him because he was a wonderful guy.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He was part of the actually 95, the 85 minor Wexford team.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He was a selector and I would have grown up with him all the way through my life.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

And he was like a daddy to me in terms of hurling with the club.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He'd always look after you, he'd always care for you.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He'd always fill you with confidence.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He'd always believe in you.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

And he'd always... He used to always go around with an old pocket of sweets as well.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

So he'd always give you an old sweet here and there.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

But he was the man that done everything for the club.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

He used to watch the jerseys, become a selector, whether it was a minor team or a junior team.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

organise hurls, you know, he organised everything within the club, you know, and he used to sell maybe 100 to 150 lotto pocket tickets every week.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

So to him, he is a club champion to us, you know, and we really appreciate it for all the work that he has done and he passed away a couple of years ago so he has a lovely statue down there within the club and rightly so because to me, he is a club champion and I must say there is many, many more club champions out there so if there are, please put your name forward for the club champion.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

Yeah, to be quite honest, it was probably a journey of a lifetime.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

But you're rather have it lasting 10 years rather than just one year.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

And as you said, unfortunately, it's 30 years since we won and people are still talking about the team of 96, you know.

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

Tony Dorn often said, and I heard him on the radio, the great Tony Dorn himself, he spoke about...

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

You know, why isn't there a new chapter in Hurling?

Indo GAA
Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory

Why isn't there another group of young men coming through?