Tomas O’Se. File Photo.
LIVES were nearly lost one year on the way to the Munster Final with Páidí Ó Sé behind the wheel according his nephew in his column in the Irish Independent today.
One of the highlights of Darragh and Tomás Ó Sé’s recent articles in the national press has been the odd yarn involving their late uncle.
With the game against Cork now days away, Tomás cast his mind back to a car journey from Ventry to Fitzgerald Stadium on Munster Final day that nearly cost the lives of the Ó Sé clan.
“I remember one year, the traffic was backed up for maybe a mile and a half stretching out from the Golden Nugget pub” writes Tomás in the column.
“We’d timed it badly and were going to be late now. Anyway, Páidí just swung right and did his best Nigel Mansell impression down the wrong side of the road. Anything coming against us and we were dead.
“Next thing a garda launches himself out in front of us, risking life and limb. You could see from his face what he was thinking. ‘Jesus Christ, what kind of lunatic have I got here?’ It wasn’t a ticket this man had in mind. ‘Twas jail.”
“Next thing he spots who it is behind the wheel and, being a local, breaks into a roguish grin. ‘Ah Lord God, ’tis yourself Páidí, drive on there and beat the shite out of those Cork fellas today!'”
“People stuck in the jam spotted who it was too and started hooting their horns in support. And the buzz PO would be getting at that moment… you just couldn’t buy it,” Tomás wrote.
Epic levels of roguery and neck, and we wonder why we Kerry people have a reputation for cuteness!
(Read the full column here).
