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17th November 2017
03:33pm GMT

“If anyone deserves five All-Irelands it’s Denis Bastick."That's because Bastick only made his Dublin debut at the age of 28, a late bloomer. It wasn't the first time he tried to break into a county panel as he had trials with Wooly's home county but evidently didn't impress enough:
"Denis Bastick got a trial for Laois in 2004 and couldn’t make the Laois panel," Parkinson recalled. "Denis Bastick didn’t give up, he floated around Dublin squads in and out of them and didn’t make them. He won an All-Ireland Junior, stuck in there. "He has family from Laois…he didn’t really stand out in the trials, I actually don’t remember him at the trials but it is fact that he was at the trials because Mick (O’Dwyer) was looking at different fellas with connections he was kind of searching with fellas with the granny rule, he was doing a Jack Charlton on it because he thought we might need an extra couple of players."You'd get the sense that missing out on Laois only to win five All-Ireland titles isn't the worst set-back that Bastick has endured in his footballing life.
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