The Lonely Passion of Patrick Gilroy
Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
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The Conversion From Free Wheeling Football to War
Dublin were cut out of it because they got into the habit of just ignoring us and going into a bit of a bubble, particularly when you're getting towards the championship. It was a problem for the entire time I was there - trying to keep an element of distance from that. All serious sport requires the conversion from sort of free wheeling football and football in the way as entertainment to football as war. And that was the big conversion I think that happened in 2010. Of course you can only do it with the right characters. You had so many different guys like Rory O'Carol, Michael Dara McCauley,. I think Noyl Corky was there for two years
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