The spring of ‘99 was the first time I shared a dressing-room with Ben. Our last game of the League round-robin was away to Wexford. Gorey was never a venue you particularly enjoyed traveling to. Tough place to go, tougher again to come away with a result.
I had obviously seen Ben line out at underage in the years before that, but didn’t really know much about him. We were under the cosh the same day in Gorey until Ben, only 20 at the time and introduced as a second half substitute, came in along the end-line and scored a fantastic goal.
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