I remember Paddy standing on the wall at the back of the city end, There was another great fan who had a book shop on shandon st,
Yeah I remember him too. Big heavy guy with glasses - I think it might have him that tried to get the huge teddybear into Thurles.
Some of the books he had on sale still had the Cork City Library stamp on them. Think he lived over in Ballinlough near St Anthony's school.
There used be a tall thin guy from somewhere in West Cork that unusually used go to all the hurling (rather than football) matches at the time. Wore a baseball cap if memory serves. There were a quite a few of us regulars of The City End. Used to regularly meet a guy from Limerick too who used go to the Cork games. He was originally from somewhere in England and his local soccer team played in red so he chose Cork rather than Limerick to follow
Anyone remember going down the park to queue for tickets for Cork Tipp (game in Killarney). I remember getting down there at about 9:30AM and the tickets didn't go on sale until about 4 in the afternoon. And we weren't top of the queue either. I remember Frank Murphy with a loud-hailer standing high at the parapet on the Blackrock End speaking to the crowd at about 3:30 "There will be no Stand Tickets on Sale" - some of the middle aged men at the time were raging having queued for many hours only to be told late in the day that no Stand tickets were available. I remember seeing very respectable looking gents shouting up at Frank Murphy "Jump you bollix. Jump"