Today I hit the N4 and headed West to Aclare, Co. Sligo, home of Neil Egan, former Sligo footballer, selector, winning manager of Tourlestrane seniors and current manager of the Tourlestrane juniors. More importantly for this exercise, its also the home of Cathy Egan - wife of one and mother of seven footballers.
Its the 5th of July and the Egan family's gigantic Irish wolfhound greets me in the driveway of their home which is decked in star spangled banners. Cathy Egan is originally from Detroit and met her husband Neil after he was announced as the new 'secret weapon' of the Detroit Pádraig Pearse GAA team. Their first date was at a football game. They got married - he wore football socks with the tux. They went on honeymoon - and had to come home early for a game.
After adding three football fans to the nest, the family settled in Ireland and as Cathy says, the Tourlestrane adventure began!
Cathy & Neil now have seven footballers under their roof (two girls, five boys) - they don't put up pictures anymore as too many have fallen foul of stray footballs, unfortunately windows are more of a necessity.
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Not to mention going to the games and training sessions, writing the reports for the local paper, changing dinner menu and time for the match, running baths for aches and pains, fetching slings, braces and heat creams, washing the team/teams jerseys and all this well working for the family business.
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