An alternative map of Ireland exists in the collective GAA psyche. You’d struggle to find it in an atlas; one area is not differentiated from the next by way of firm borders, but rather the iron-clad acceptance of tradition – whether it’s hurling or football country. Moving from one to the other is the GAA’s equivalent of crossing the great divide.
A native of Clooney, Frank Enright’s Gaelic games initiation came through hurling – the poison of choice in that corner of East Clare. But life conspired to pull him northwards.
“The two of us met back in the [Connemara] Gaeltacht when we were teenagers,” Enright says of his wife, Fiona, a Tuam woman. “We used to just keep bumping into each other every now and again.
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