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What sparked the emotional reaction after Mayo’s All‑Ireland win?
We're
back.
So talk to me about your adventures. No,
Larissa, before all that. Yeah. Just because for the listeners and they know that...
I sound different. Well,
they know that I'm from Mayo. Yeah. And they may have picked up that you're also from Mayo.
Yeah. Can you tell
us what it's been like?
I keep thinking back. You
burst into tears when the final
whistle was blown. I burst into tears. Really? I cried for... Everyone said there was a lull in Croke Park after the full-time whistle. But I think that's because all the male people that were there just started to cry. I just got this huge flood of emotion that I didn't think I had. Emotion. That would
never happen in Meath that a stadium full of Meath people would go quiet because we won the All-Ireland. That would never happen. I'm sure it wouldn't. We'd just say fuck one. Class. Another one. Another one. What's that? Number 12. How many have you won now?
How many All-Irelands? A few. A few. Really? Well like this is our fourth one. So after the first 15 minutes, I was like, oh, God, here we go again. Please, please. A lot of people
now have that phrase going through their heads as they're listening to you talk about Mayo.
Not again. Oh, God, here we go again. Yeah, here we go again. Even my favourite song of all time, The Green and Red of Mayo, is almost wearing thin on me even now. So after 15 minutes, I went, oh, no. I can't be here to witness another... When Cliffie scored the goal. 1996 was my first one. I never missed one with Mayo in it. I never missed a lot of them lately, but... That's a lot of Batons. A lot of Batons. But then, at halftime, I was like, we're going to win this. Like, we're actually going to win this. Is it possible? And then you have this, oh sure, maybe not. Like, we don't deserve this. Like, we,
you
know, you don't just win because you deserve it. So... Oh, then I just, I got completely overcome at the vinyl whistle. Say that again. I just, I just could not cope with it. No, no, no, say
it, say
it, say it. It was.
Completely
overcome.
Oh, Jesus. We had the roast beef and we had everything in position and we watched it and I swear to God, it was... What do you mean? Were you in Tara or
something? We had the roast beef. We had the roast beef in the house. The High Kings of Ireland. We had the roast beef in the house. You went for the full spread. We had, yeah, but it was a big day. Hang on, hang on,
let me say that
again.
Well,
every household in the country, I think, was gearing up for this, even though we had no affinity with it. But we had because the whole country was engaged. Did the
Protestants up the North watch it, I wonder, as part of
their process of being rehabilitated? Even
the Protestants must have been. It was
unbelievable emotion for the hour after it, for those 15 minutes after it.
Well, I cried and cried and cried and cried and cried. They cancelled the Angelus. Did they? They did. Marty took over. Do
you know the way the seagulls come into Croke Park when Marty's always talking? It was unbelievable. Even the seagulls were moved. Even the seagulls
knew to hold their place. Who did you think of? Your dad?
Oh yeah, obviously my father. And he always said he would not be alive to see me own another All-Ireland. And sure enough, the poor man wasn't. And then it was just weird. We're just hugging people and just like... What the fuck? look, what the fuck are we supposed to do now? And I met a lot of people and former Mayo footballers after the game and they were like, there was an anti-climax to right after it. My
question now to you is like, is there any reason for Mayo to exist anymore? It'll
never be the same again.
Should the county be disbanded? Your whole raise on death row was getting the All-Ireland and now it's done. Is Project Mayo over?
Where can we go now?
Who'd take it? Who'd...
Galway
would
take a bit
of South
Mayo. We could take Ballandine. We go 20, 30 miles.
What's
the town after that? Charlestown. Charlestown.
Oh no, you're going way too far in there. We'll take
Ballandine. We'll take 15 miles past Ballandine.
The Sligo people wouldn't give you Charlestown. It's too close to them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What sparked the emotional reaction after Mayo’s All‑Ireland win?
0:14–8:48
2
Why do the hosts wonder if Mayo should keep existing after the victory?
8:48–17:36
3
How did the Tiernan family’s Mayo heritage shape the conversation?
17:36–27:27
4
What led Hector to discover a pituitary tumour and how was it diagnosed?
27:27–35:47
5
How was the rare TSH‑adenoma treated and what did the surgery involve?
35:47–43:37