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born 1969 Ireland
Joe Brolly (born 25 June 1969), barrister, Gaelic football analyst and former player of the game for the Derry county team. A former regular on The Sunday Game (RTÉ), Brolly writes columns for the Sunday Independent and Gaelic Life.
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It is a fact widely known that Kieran McGeeney's teams do not perform in championship. This tradition continued at Breffni Park yesterday, with Donegal playing a virtually perfect game.
American presidents come and go. Dublin endure. Their annual Leinster Championship run has become the easiest campaign in Irish life after the Healy-Raes', with more discipline.
Yes, I visibly propelled Michael Murphy into the air to catch that ball. My ability to deliver an All-Ireland to the highest bidder! I am a powerful man and people should be afraid.
Boys talking through their arses on TSG. It was a superb goal. The hip nudge to put Walsh off balance. The catch. The lightning fast, deft finish. The perfect timing.
He's so big, he has an arse like a bag of cement. You can't get near him when the ball comes in, yet he has the most delicate skills.
For the second week in a row, Kieran Donaghy was better dressed in the studio than Jimmy McGuinness and Peter Canavan wasn't. Last weekend, Kieran gave a detailed analysis of a sending off he hadn't seen.
The great Barry, the great unheralded maestro of Donegal football...
Och, he knows what I think of him – I've said it before.
The one real anomaly in the League is The Black Death... They have continued to play the most horrible, defensive football the game has ever seen, oblivious to the trend towards attack based, non fouling football.
Great second half by Cavan. Always had a soft spot for the county ever since Pat Faulkner kicked me up in the air & Joe Dillon caught me over his head in the 1987 Ulster club semi final v Kingscourt.