Paul Galvin shares excellent tale about Tomás Ó Sé’s party piece on Kerry nights out

It’s not the matches, the trophies or the contests against fierce rivals. What Paul Galvin misses most about playing for Kerry is the bond that forged them together.

Galvin stepped away from Kerry once and tried to move on but he was drawn back, last year. One more go at it.

Once more within that swirling cacophony of brotherhood.

Galvin primarily roomed with two Kerry legends during his time with the senior footballers – Colm Cooper and Tomás Ó Sé.

We have already heard about ‘The Gooch’ sleeping in until 1:15pm before going out, just over two hours later, and scoring 1-5 in an All-Ireland Final win over Cork. Galvin also had a fantastic story about Ó Sé to share.

On Tomás ‘The Bull’ Ó Sé, Galvin tells us:

“If you ever came out for a night with the Kerry boys, you’d have great fun.

“I roomed with Tomás and his thing was a scene from The Field by Bull McCabe. He’d set the scene up. You know the way a fella would go off to fix his bag or off to the bathroom. 

“Next thing, he’d come back into the room and he’d do this dance. This dance like the Bull McCabe across the room and he’d have that line: ‘I’ll dance with you red-head. The Bull McCabe will dance with ya!’

“It was childish but good fun, and great for relaxation.”

Sounds like the Kerry team were the team to party with, back in the day.

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