What a player, what a son.
The McInerney’s don’t seem like the worst hurling family in the world.
Gearoid lifted his first Liam McCarthy last month as Galway ended their All-Ireland drought but his father won back to back titles in 1987 and 1988.
So that’ll be three medals in their house now but what do you do with your most precious possession, nobody gets to keep the trophy but everyone gets a medal.
Will it be put in a little frame and hung up on a wall? Or just throw on a bedside locker.
The answer is neither for the All-Star nominee as he plans to give his medal to his mother.
The Galway centre-back was speaking at the September PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month Awards where the Oranmore club man picked up to award for his display against Waterford and told SportsJOE what he plans to do with his medal:
“We haven’t got them yet, Dad always gave it to his Mum so I’ll probably do the same. It means a lot to me but it will probably be that little bit more special for her.”
It’ll no doubt be a lovely moment for the mother of the 27-year-old and she seems like a proud mammy at that from the sounds of the Galway hurler, he was asked if he had watched the final back since:
“I haven’t really watched it fully but I’ve watched bits and pieces of it,” he said
“Mum is on about watching it as a family and making a dinner and watching it but I don’t know if that will ever happen unless it is Christmas day.”
“I’ve watched it once or twice I suppose but not in one go.”
One thing is for sure though, there is no doubting that the All-Ireland medal will be paraded around the house on Christmas Day for whatever visitor is willing to look at it.
Pictured is Galway hurler Gearoid McInerney being presented with his PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month for September by David McGee, right, and Markets and Strategy Partner, PwC and Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Aogán Ó Fearghail at the PwC offices in Spencer Dock, Dublin.
