Mary Lavery Carrig
speaker
52 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Mary Lavery Carrig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The sun rises over the Shannon Estuary and all along the N69, bedecked in flags of green and gold, cars are in a steady stream on their way to the capital.
I look again at your WhatsApp video, filled with bright young Irish people, arms around each other, under blue Australian skies.
There's a sing-song underway.
Everyone knows the words to If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here.
In the silence of your room, I unwrap a tuft of dry, brittle grass from a thin layer of tissue, the tips of my fingers touching the fragile, parched wisps.
Age ten.
You'd arrived home with it from Croke Park.
It was September 17th, 2006, the last time the Kerry and Mayo met in an All-Ireland senior football final, when Declan O'Sullivan, the Kerry captain from the Drummond Pierce Club, had lifted Sam Maguire.
You, your dad and your brothers, among the throngs of Kerry supporters, had made your way onto the pitch.
Unnoticed, you'd knelt down, filling your pockets with fresh green grass.
Pajamas on, ready for bed, your blue eyes shone when you'd secretly shown me your stash, warning me not to tell your dad.
You recited the names of your heroes like your prayers.
Colm, Gooch Cooper, Ciarán Starr Donaghy, Seamus Moynihan, Mike Frank Russell, Paul Galvin and the O'Shea brothers from Anguilthacht, Tomás, Dara and Mark.
Your dad said Mayo would live to fight another day.
I'm back in the kitchen.
Soon my phone will give a little hop as it vibrates on the counter.
You, in purse, will be at the other end of the line.
We'll raise a toast to Kerry for victory today.
You'll tell me about the GAA matches you've played with St Finbar's Club in Perth.
The scores, new friends, all the county colours, all the jerseys.
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