Ronan Mullen

It is fun, Joe and Will, to have righteous indignation right at the top of the game.

Like I'm in the middle of it.

I was here for the Euros in 2024 and I remember Kukure caught the ball in the Spain-Germany match and again should have been a penalty.

And UEFA apologized like a few weeks later saying, geez, we're really sorry.

You know, we're really sorry that we screwed you out of winning the Euros at home.

But Spain went and won it anyway.

So hopefully UEFA will apologize for the performance last time as well.

I was at a nearby eatery in Josefsplatz.

When you're involved in it, it's hard not to be.

I can't remember the last sort of time that we had a superstar who was sort of really open during their career.

You know, it's it's it's it's a shame.

You know, I read back a lot of the old sort of interviews that were around all Ireland finals in the 90s.

Particularly during that period when, like, this is part of the reason we remember the 90s for Hurling was because all the iconoclastic sort of counties came along and changed things around.

But also because their stories were being kind of actively told as they were doing it.

So we all got to know them in real time.

Clifford, in the small exposure I've had to him, is like...

perfectly nice talks in a very honest and kind of open way but you just know there's a whole treasure chest of stuff there that he's never going to say this side of retirement but I think we'll take his football over his stories just for the moment

What's an interesting sort of context for that is obviously last year was the first year with the amended rules.

And I know people will always come up with their theories as to other rules suit this.

But one of the things that Charlotte Bourne said, I can't remember when he said it, was that around the time that he was putting the FRC together.