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19th July 2016
01:30pm BST

From door to door, Mairn's journey is actually much longer than maps would lead you to believe. Two hours in the car.
"When they ask him at school what he wants to do with his life, he says he wants to hurl in Croke Park," Fearghal's mother Catherine takes turns with his father to drive him to training and she spoke with the Irish Post. "It’s only a small window in a person’s life and if we can do anything to keep that passion going, we’ll do it. It’s just so important to him. "The only training he’s ever missed is the two-week period for school exams. He hates missing it."https://twitter.com/IrishPostSport/status/755358786760704000 You can go anywhere in the world now and you'll still see it, the Gaelic influence. You can go anywhere in the world and you'll find a piece of home. Sometimes, that comes in a four-hour car journey to training. Sometimes it comes with a bunch of lads pucking around on a San Diego beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZ8MO3mo2A Listen to our new GAA podcast with Colm Parkinson. Click here to subscribe on iTunes. https://soundcloud.com/user-787320910/the-gaa-hour-with-colm-parkinson-tyrone-and-galway-are-back-but-these-dubs-are-not-going-away
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