The Final Whistle podcast 23/10/2025

Part two of the recent Sligo GAA Celebration Dinner of the county’s Connacht Championship winning team from 1975.The event, at Sligo’s Clayton Hotel, marked the 50th anniversary of that breakthrough success as surviving members of the team, along with family and connections of those deceased panel members gathered for a night of nostalgia.Contributions from Mickey Kearins, Des Kearins, Paddy Henry, Matty Hoey Mick Laffey, the match referee Tommy Mora and others.Journalists Jim and Leo Gray, twin brothers, who reported on Sligo’s Connacht Championship run in 1975 for the Sligo Champion newspaper, are also part of the conversation.From The Clayton Hotel in Sligo, here is Part 2 of Sligo GAA’s 1975 celebration dinner,Introduced by Sligo GAA Communications Officer Padraig McKeon.