MUNTERCONNACHT
Sean Meehan
2012 RESU LTS
BLUE AND WHITE BLOODED Bertie Brady is joint-President of Munterconnacht GFC. He's a real mine of information too.
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ick a year over the past halfcentury and more. Now want to know how Cavan's footballers fared out in that particular year? Well, give Bertie Brady a jingle. He'll fill you in a jiffy. Fact is, Bertie is your quiz buff's dream interviewee. He is 78 years young and his memory is as fresh as newly-fallen snow. His memories are a mix of the personal and of club and county. Either way, his reflections are grossly
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entertaining and positively luminous. He attended five all-Ireland SFC finals involving the Breffni County. His first final was in 1945, then he was at Croker again on finals day in '48, '49 and in '52 when the Cavan v Meath decider went to a replay. Bertie seems to have a special affinity for Cavan football in the 'fifties. Hardly surprising though given that it was in that decade that he enjoyed his best days on the playing field with his native Munterconnacht
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and his adopted Virginia. He recalls Munterconnacht locking horns with a Mick Higgins-powered Bailieboro side in the 1952 Cavan SFC final even though he didn't figure himself in that decider having just come on board at the tail end of that year. But what did he make of the late, great Higgins? "He was one of the best footballers Cavan ever produced; he had a lot going for himself and was a lot bigger