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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 31 Cathal O'Neill
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Cathal O'Neill - On Song Player
To perform well is to be "on song," and the term applies to newly appointed Derrytresk chairman Cathal O'Neill in more ways than one. Not only has he achieved great success on the football field at club and county level, but he also won the All-Ireland singing competition at the 2011 fleadh in Cavan. In 2015 he released an album - "Inherited" - featuring songs learned from the singing of his late father, John, his granny, Sarah Anne O'Neill, and his great-uncle Geordie Hanna.
Of course Martin is related to Cathal, being a full cousin of his late father, John O'Neill, who died tragically in 1994, when Cathal was just seven-years old.
The TwoMacs chat to the affable Derrytresk man about his twin passions of football and song, with Ronan taking the lead on the former topic. Forensic light is shone on the appalling treatment of Derrytresk by the GAA hierarchy after a phone in to an RTE reporter following the 2011 All-Ireland club semi final. Both Ronan and Cathal see it as yet another outrageous manifestation of Kerry begrudgery.
But there's also music, great yarns and moving recollections in a podcast that never flags and is always entertaining.
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