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Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh was the ‘High King’ of Irish broadcasting, funeral hears
Tributes paid to well-known GAA commentator who lived life with ‘enduring love for the Irish language, for education, for sport and for culture’
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‘His gesture of sympathy touched me greatly’: Readers pay tribute to Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh
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Darragh Ó Sé and Pat Fox remember ‘original, one-off’ Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh
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Seán Moran: Harte and O’Connor sound echoes of the days when there were second acts in All-Ireland lives
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Darragh Ó Sé: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh was interested in everyone and had no ego
I got to know him first in the early 1990s when he was still training country players who were working in Dublin - he never had a bad word to say about anyone
‘I’ve seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park’: Pat Fox on Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s famous quote
Tipperary hurler was name-checked in two of Ó Muircheartaigh’s colourful on-air yarns
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh: People felt they knew him and that he knew them too
The Kerry broadcaster’s lyrical genius wouldn’t have had such an impact without the organic connection with his audience
GAA commentator Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh dies aged 93
Kerry native spent more than 60 years broadcasting matches live before his retirement in 2010
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh obituary: GAA commentator whose voice was central to the All-Ireland championship
For more than 50 years, Ó Muircheartaigh’s radio commentaries, in Irish and English, were as rich in language as they were keen in observation
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