When we were kings cavan football team 1960s
Paul Fitzpatrick
The Anglo Celt ‘When We Were Kings’ special supplement is out in this week’s edition, dated 28th August. It is based on the great Cavan teams in the 1960s and features ‘The story of the sixties’, ‘The players, ‘Wembley way’, a ‘Steve Duggan interview’ and much more.
While the Celt team try to bring the best Gaelic games coverage we can each week, it is important to remember the past. Nostalgia, as the joke goes, is not what it used to be but it is still a very powerful thing.
Cavan’s glorious past can be broken down into three distinct eras – the late ‘20s through to the late ‘30s, the ‘40s and early ‘50s and then the ‘60s. While the earlier teams managed to mine five All-Irelands, the 1960s side did not get their elusive Celtic crosses. However, that does not mean they should be forgotten; they were right up there with the best, with magnificent players and their achievements are still recalled with great fondness by Cavan supporters and, indeed, football followers all over the country.
Some of the pictures that feature in the supplement can be purchased from our vast Cavan archive photostore at www.anglocelt.ie/photostore.
We hope you enjoy our supplement; please get in touch with any comments or suggestions as to the makeup of our next pull-out! A special word of thanks to all of those players I have interviewed and met in recent years – Ray Carolan, my old teacher Jim McDonnell, Tom Lynch, Steve Duggan, Garrett O’Reilly and Enda McGowan among others.
Thanks also to everyone who helped out with photos for this publication.