Ray Silke
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438 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Ray Silke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and gave us a hug and it just put the hair standing on my neck and I'm delighted because I think it's good for Connacht and I think it's good for Gaelic football and I think it's good for any team that's aspiring to achieve more and I know you're going to the Odyssey later on there Matt so I just had a quick look of a famous quote and in that poem Homer says each man delights in the work that suits him best and I think Andy Morne is going to go on and has already been
his energy his positivity is unbelievable and I think Martin Kearney was right he's Colin Boyle he's Paul Durkin he has Zippy Higgins Keith Higgins and he just seems to be getting an unbelievable tune out of them and I as a goalie person was delighted and the emotion around the streets afterwards Matt it was like
It was euphoric is the only way to describe it.
It'd be like if Ireland, remember Italian 1990, we all went out when we beat England or Italy.
I don't know who we beat back then, but there was that kind of a vibe to the whole occasion and well done and they deserved it and a fair play to them.
And I was wrong on Friday evening, like many other people.
And I know David is MIA, but he did say that they had a chance and at 11-4, a few people took that chance, but they fully deserved their win, Matt.
Very few.
And look, I was very fortunate and I'll keep this short in 1998 or whatever it was, but 15, 20 people over the years have said it's the only time they maybe saw their father cry or their parents cried in Croke Park.
And, you know, Jack Coyne spoke so well as well.
There was just pride.
It was just an unbelievable outpouring of emotion.
And it took a while just for it to sink in.
you know, you've been there so many times and I was looking back through some of the names, Matt, Willie Joe Padden, Liam McHale, Ciarán MacDonald, James Horne, you know, the Mortimers, Alan Dillon, Tom Parsons, Cillian O'Connor, Lee Keegan.
There have been so many players that have tried in the last 20, 25, 35 years since Dermot Flanagan in 1950, 51.
And it was just absolutely crazy.
euphoric is the only way I would describe it once it settled down and I was very fortunate to spend five minutes with Enda Kenny just walking out and we were back and we just looked at the role of honour and Enda spoke very well he wasn't in any way he just said this is fantastic for football it's fantastic for Mayo we can build on this but he said Kerry are amazing champions and he said a word and I know what he means because we lost to Kerry in 2000 he said beating Kerry in an All-Ireland final just added a little bit extra right
I don't know if you've been sarcastic there or not, but carry on.
Yeah, look, Coby McDonald, Matt, is 18.
He's going to be, he's six foot four and he's not 19 until December.
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