Mick Galway was talking on Paddy Power’s Podcast about all things rugby and growing up in Kerry in his native Castleisland, playing football and taking up rugby to keep fit in the winter. Galway believes though if it wasn’t for GAA Ireland would ‘wipe the board with New Zealand in Rugby’
“And the likes of Jack O’Shea. Jacko was called the king in Kerry because he had an engine in him. He had everything.
“I look at Jack O’Shea and I compare him to somebody like one of the great New Zealand wing forwards, he’d go on forever. Somebody like Kieran Read,” Galwey commented.
“Jacko had that temperament about him. He had that toughness about him. He had everything. And, that’s only one player.
“You think of all the great Dubs, even the hurlers, the Kilkenny lads, all the lads who came through Limerick, Cork, wherever.”
“If, and I’ll back that up Ruby, if Ireland was a rugby playing nation – and we didn’t have GAA – we would wipe the board with New Zealand every day,” Galwey stated.
“I’ve no doubt about that.”