Micheal Muircheartaigh Masterpieces

biko

"Colin Corkery on the 45 lets go with the right boot. Its over the bar. This man shouldn't be playing football. He's made an almost Lazarus-like recovery from a heart condition. Lazarus was a great man but he couldn't kick points like Colin Corkery"

"1-5 to 0-8.. well from Lapland to the Antarctic, that's level scores in any man's language".

"Pat Fox has it on his hurl and is motoring well now ... but here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail ...... I've seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park!"

"Teddy looks at the ball, the ball looks at Teddy"

"He grabs the sliotar, he's on the 50 .... he's on the 40 ... he's on the 30 ........... and he's on the ground"

"In the first half they played with the wind. In the second half they played with the ball".

"Stephen Byrne with the puck out for Offaly....Stephen, one of 12 ...... all but one are here to-day, the one that's missing is Mary, she's at home minding the house ..... and the ball is dropping i lar na bpairce...."

"Pat Fox out to the forty and grabs the sliothar, I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide..... and the dog lost as well"

"Sean Og o Hailpin.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold"

"Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation"

Flukey

His running commentary on the streaker and the efforts to catch him, slotted seamlessly into his match commentary last year, was brilliant.

KevIRL

What about the one where he was commentating on a match and there was an injury

"I'll take advantage of the break in play to tell ye a story. I was in New York last week and stopped at a news stand. I asked the Egyptian behind the counter if he had the Kerryman. He looked at me and replied "of course sir, North or South edition?" I took both"

Danno

CLASSICs!!!!!

Lemlin

I remember watching a match which was about to go into extra time and him quipping "there could be extra time and I'm almost out of water, its not certain if there will be extra time but if there is extra time what's certain is that I'll need more water".

One you don't hear quoted very often but that I thought was very funny.

*marie*

"Teddy McCarthy to Mick McCarthy, no relation, Mick McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation."

"Anthony Lynch, the Cork corner back, will be the last person to lay you down, his people are undertakers."

This is from a Dublin fan after Charlie Redmond missed a penalty in the '94 All Ireland:
"He'll regret this to his dying day, if he lives that long."

Flukey

One flaw is his tendency at times to start telling you about a match played decades ago instead of concentrating on the one he is at. These aren't always slotted into gaps in play either. If they are, they are fine, but sometimes it happens when he is in full flow of descrbing current action. He is the best commentator though and ideal for radio. He did some television commentary years ago, but his abilities for describing action and bringing it to the listener is more suited for radio.