“I wasn’t sneaking house [to Dublin to play Gaelic football],” insisted Moran, laughing. “No [there was no agreement in place]. You will need to keep in mind the Gaelic soccer season, the championship season in Eire is a summer time season. And right here, in the summertime, you get a break off then as nicely. So I did return and I educated with Dublin.
“Once I went again in the summertime of ’78, I performed within the Leinster semi-final, the Leinster closing, the All-Eire semi-final and all these video games. The membership by no means knew something about it.
“None of these issues filtered again. The beauty of that interval was it was the age of no social media. There isn’t any curiosity again right here in it. I am not coming again to shout my mouth off about it both. Even the gamers within the dressing room may not have recognized about it as a result of what am I telling them for? You realize, there was no must.
“I simply went and performed in these video games and it was solely once we received to the ultimate in ’78 that the administration group, Tony Hanahoe and Kevin Heffernan, thought we would higher go over and ask permission for Kevin to play on this explicit sport.”
