Ice Cream After the Hurling Match

Martin Monahan 21^st July 2017 Deerpark Social Services Centre, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

Ice-cream after the hurling match

Interviewer: Clare Doyle (CD)

Interviewee: Martin Monahan (MM)

CD: Were you ever a member of the GAA or any place that would, like go off together and maybe go to a match and stop to have something to eat on the way?

MM: Well, I used to hurl, juvenile hurling in the national school

CD: Very nice

MM: And I won a few medals too, as well, I captained the junior…

CD: So, you were good at it!

MM: I was

CD: And you’d go off then for the matches?

MM: The teacher used to bring us to the matches.

CD: And would they let you…I remember when I was small I used to play a bit of camogie, and we’d always stop at the shop on the way home for the sweets

MM: We used to stop at the shop to get ice-cream

CD: Oh, very nice

MM: After the match