At about 3am, he left his room in the Tara Towers Hotel on Dublin’s southside and went to the Burlington Hotel in search of Mick O’Dwyer. There, they sat and drank tea until dawn.

Sir — It seems everyone who spent any time in Mick O’Dwyer’s company has a scéal to tell. I am no exception. The year was 1987. Old adversaries Kerry and Dublin had qualified for the All ...

And for Mick O’Dwyer’s players, there was a price to pay when they reconvened. Seánie Furlong explained: “Micko didn’t expect you to be flying in the league because it was all about the ...

On a night when they paid tribute to Mick O'Dwyer, Kildare delivered a performance that might have lacked the quality of his very best teams but it certainly had the character.

On the front of the match programme and in the half-time presentation, Mick O’Dwyer’s presence was felt in Aughrim. His Wicklow selectors Arthur French and Kevin O’Brien, as well as many of ...

Healy, 33, has worked with a broad spectrum of managers and is the last active inter-county footballer to have played under the late Mick O’Dwyer, who gave him his League debut in 2011.

On a night when they paid tribute to the sadly departed Mick O’Dwyer, Kildare delivered a performance that might have lacked the quality of his very best teams but it had the character.

The last time the GAA ground in Aughrim was packed to capacity was in 2009 when the late, great Mick O’Dwyer was in charge of Wicklow. Since then, Wicklow — where, of course, I am now in ...