GAA Players Lift The Lid On The Split Season
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With just a few days to go until Christmas, the GAA 2020 season came to an end. It was one for the history books, a season like no other and a new documentary series is looking at the impact that has had on those involved.
The Split
Season has unrestricted access to 5 inter-county players, including All Ireland finalists Declan Hannon and Niamh Collins, during this year’s championships and finds out what it s like to be vying for an All-Ireland title, while working and training during a pandemic.
Limerick hurlers pay a virtual visit to UHL following All-Ireland success
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MEMBERS of the Limerick senior hurling team which won the All-Ireland championship last weekend have raised spirits at University Hospital Limerick with a virtual Christmas visit to paediatric and adult patients.
Team captain Declan Hannon, Sean Finn, Gearoid Hegarty and Cian Lynch all dialled in for a special video call to the Children’s Ark School and Ward 2C and were happy to take questions from patients young and old from the many passionate Limerick supporters on the staff in UHL.
Staff thanked Declan Hannon for his words of encouragement for frontline workers following Sunday s victory and to all in Limerick GAA for their support on following the public health guidelines.
On Sunday Louise Cantillon found herself in unusual circumstances watching her boyfriend, Limerick captain Declan Hannon, through the television as he raised the Liam MacCarthy Cup and gave a moving speech to an all but empty Croke Park.
Limerick’s All-Ireland victory in a year of COVID disruptions was a ‘non-comparable experience ‘ to their 2018 win she told EVOKE.
The radio presenter and hurler have been together since they were teenagers and it was from their native Limerick, where they have lived together for the past four years, that Louise watched Declan’s compelling speech.
Describing the experience Louise said, ‘It felt totally different. It was a non-comparable experience to 2018.’
‘They’re in heaven looking down on us’ - Declan Hannon thanked for kindness and thoughtfulness
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Declan Hannon had just played an All-Ireland final, lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup and gave a powerful speech.
He was being called in a million and one directions. His mind awhirl, yet another camera and microphone was stuck in his face.
At this moment of massive personal and collective pride, joy and satisfaction, Declan still thought of those who had sadly passed away in the past year and their grieving families. The senior captain honoured the memory of performance psychologist Caroline Currid’s mother Ann, and Adare’s Cathal Scanlon and Geraldine Aherne.