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Wed 09 Sep 2010Tipperary veteran hoping for hat-trick of birthday triumphs
FOR ONE spectator at Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final there will be a guaranteed cause for celebration even before the ball is thrown in. Larry Ryan from Cashel will be 80 and hoping history repeats itself.
When he was just seven his father brought him to the 1937 final between Tipperary and Kilkenny, played in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, as the original Cusack Stand was being constructed but was 11 months behind schedule, leaving Croke Park unusable for the hurling final.
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