ON November 18 in Killarney 820 republicans broke bread together in honour of Martin and Marie Ferris. It was a great night. Marie Ferris is one of my heroes. A warrior woman. An activist. A mammy. A mamó. And the wife of Martin Ferris.
After falling in love with football in his home country of Austria, Raimann set his sights on America to achieve his dream of playing professional football.
Almost seven years before he was drafted by the Colts, Bernhard Raimann arrived in America as an Austrian foreign exchange student. And the year he spent in a small town in Michigan was instrumental in turning his dream of playing football into reality –