As Kerry showed off the Sam Maguire Cup on an open deck bus in Tralee in late September 1997, Pádraic Joyce watched the celebrations from his apartment. Tralee RTC's 1998 Sigerson Cup team at Austin Stack Park. “Pádraic was right-half forward in our Sigerson team and the positional move to full-forward with Galway in ‘98 made him into one of the great players. “I sat beside him watching Kerry and Galway in Tuam in the League last year and he was mentioning certain players on the Galway team and others who weren’t even on the team. “I mean it in the best possible way but Pádraic has that bit of bite about him and he’ll bring that to Galway.

Source: Irish Examiner January 31, 2020 14:03 UTC