#Big head soccer world cup unblocked driver#

When Kevin Lynch's drew with Cushendall in the Ulster Club hurling final in 2006, just as Lavey had in '99. McGurk Architects, of which he was director, have helped shape landscapes around towns and cities and GAA fields in Ireland and beyond. Yet he was fiercely proud of each and every one, football and hurling. He had enough to be at but was eternally involved in teams, whether it was Lavey or Derry or even Magherafelt, whom he helped coach to a minor football championship in 2010.Ī member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning squad, he won more medals with Lavey than any man could ever need.

He could go to the gym in Magherafelt or the leisure centre and swim 50 laps of the pool before work. “The whole changing room was in shock at the slap he'd hit himself – then to prove the point, he must've hit himself another ten times.” He just welted himself across the leg with it. “But he didn't realise he'd lifted one of those fibreglass hurls,” laughs Hinphey. Next thing he's lifted a hurl and is telling the lads they'd better be prepared to put their legs in where they're gonna get hurt. The words line up to race out from behind his teeth. Go out, get the miles into the legs, get showered and home to bed.īut McGurk didn't like Down, going back to an incident from their playing days when one of the brothers got a bad head injury. A cold, wintry, pre-season night against Down. Or there's one of his first games in charge. You just knew from him that he would have loved to have togged out, pulled on a helmet and played.” “He just loved hurling and loved Derry, loved being with the lads. Day-to-day, hour-to-hour, you never knew what you were gonna get from him but you knew it was coming from the right place. Next thing I was singing one, and he goes ‘you can go louder than that' and boxed me into the stomach, I swear. “I'm drinking red wine on the way home and he's up singing songs. ‘Ah I thought you'd have more man in ye than that!' ‘Sure I couldn't get one on, he wouldn't let me on'. Waldron picks it up with his own version: “Next thing Collie comes up to me. “He comes walking down the bus, big stern head on him, and lifts the t-shirt - his whole waistband filled with wee bottles of red wine!” “Collie goes to him, ‘don't you worry, I'll sort this out',” says Liam Hinphey. There are beer bottles tucked down socks and all that.Ĭollie McGurk arrives on and the players can hear the conversation.

Two players commandeer a two-litre water bottle off pioneer Brendan Rogers and fill it with vodka. Glum faces from Croke Park to the Carrickdale, where they stopped for food. Not a hope was he letting drink on board, Nicky Rackard or no Nicky Rackard.

#Big head soccer world cup unblocked driver#

Rodney Gallagher was the driver and he'd just taken receipt of a brand new bus that week. Trophy in hand, they stepped back on to one of the yellow Chambers buses that have transported Derry teams for years. The way home was an even greater adventure. “He gets up and starts going ‘come on, let's hear it', and the whole bus bursts into Come Out Ye Black ‘n' Tans.” Next thing, no noise, and all you hear is do-do-doo-do-do-doo…. “Everyone kinda went real quiet, thinking he wants us to get serious now, no more of that. “Took the speaker off us, took the phone that was running it,” says Naoise Waldron, the laughter tripping up every sentence somewhere along the way. The techno music's blaring through the speakers as Drumcondra approaches. There was the time coming into Croke Park for the Nicky Rackard Cup final. They could all tell you stories for days. They ended up pretty much where they'd started.īut boy did they have some craic along the way. Some weeks they won, some weeks they lost. People will forget what you said, they'll forget what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.ĬOLLIE McGurk was Derry hurling manager for two years.