Darcys play the Generation Game

THREE Darcys . . . three Morgans . . . and three generations of the one family lining out for their local hurling team on a Sunday afternoon in Moycullen.

Last Sunday was indeed a special day for the local Darcy family when granddad Morgan linked up with his son and grandson of the same name, in their Junior C championship clash with Salthill-Knocknacarra.

Morgan snr. – now a ‘young lad’ of 74 summers but still in great shape for a man born in the 1940s – came on as a sub in the last ten minutes of the match, and in a mobile midfield role as one might expect.

It was the culmination of a little family dream that the three generation of the Darcys would line out on the one team and especially so for grandson, Morgan (18), as his grandfather acknowledges.

“I remember a couple of years ago when young Morgan was about 16-years of age, and he said that he’d love some day to line out on the same team as me – and so it came to pass on Sunday last,” said Morgan snr.

As for ‘Morgan in the middle’ – a top-class goalkeeper and All-Ireland under-21 medal winner with Galway back in the early 1990s – he featured in the Moycullen attack on Sunday as a very fresh and youthful 49-year-old.

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