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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Hearing A Song For Christy Ring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amazing how a song can stir up memories<br>And only lately heard a ballad singer sing<br>A famous song written by Brian McMahon<br>For Ireland's greatest hurler Christy Ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was known as the Cork and Glen Rovers wizard<br>And he depicted the spirit of the Glen<br>And what set Ring apart from all the others<br>Was that he had in him this great desire to win.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eighteen Railways cups and eight All Ireland medals<br>The record of his combined medal tally stand<br>He played for Cork when he was in his forties<br>And held his own with the best in Ireland</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the St Nicholas club Christy Ring played Gaelic Football<br>And at football many better one could name<br>But he only played because of club devotion<br>As hurling always was his preferred game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But 'twas for Gaelic football Christy Ring I will remember<br>And that incident from the fifties I recall<br>In Macroom when the St Nicholas team played Millstreet<br>In a game that ended in an all in brawl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A brawl that involved both sets of supporters<br>For Gaelic football 'twas a shameful day<br>And for the punch up both sides blamed each other<br>And who is wrong or right who is to say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on that day Christy Ring met with misfortune<br>In an incident that few if any saw<br>And the next morning we read in the sporting headlines<br>How Ring was suffering from a broken jaw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some said a Millstreet fellow king hit Christy<br>But others seemed to think that wasn't so<br>That by a famed Cork hurler Ring's jaw had been broken<br>An old score settled on that day years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what happened back then to this day still a mystery<br>Nor is it likely now that we will ever know<br>When perhaps only two knew the late Christy Ring the victim<br>And the angry man who landed that fierce blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amazing how a song can stir up memories<br>And only lately heard a ballad singer sing<br>A famous song written by Brian McMahon<br>For Ireland's greatest hurler Christy Ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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