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Wed 08 Aug 2010Players soak in ambience of promised land
TOM HUMPHRIESwas in the Kildare dressingroom after the 1998 victory to hear the excited reaction to qualifying for the All-Ireland decider
THE BEST of times and the strangest of times. Can this be Kildare? The lilies who always wilt? Without their best player they went waltzing on water. They salted our words and made us eat them. It was the day they went and won one for Nuxer (Niall Buckley). And for Micko.
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