Among these, once, was a man called Mackie Moyna, who features in Mallon’s book for one of two interesting stories he told me. But the one not in the book was from the 1940s and concerned a subject of intense mutual interest: Monaghan football. Anyway, as we basked in the afterglow of victory that day, on the way back to Dublin, Mackie recalled his experience of a playing as county minor in 1945. ***The other story Mackie told me that day, and the one that does feature in Mallon’s book, might have had very serious consequences. A senior official told Mallon that FitzGerald “felt he had behaved badly towards me and was close to resigning over it”.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2019 17:03 UTC