{"id":106597,"date":"2025-10-07T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106597\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:51:08","slug":"my-father-played-for-galway-sadly-he-didnt-pass-the-genes-on-to-me-the-saw-doctors-leo-moran-on-his-mad-passion-for-gaelic-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106597\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My father played for Galway. Sadly he didn\u2019t pass the genes on to me\u2019 \u2013 The Saw Doctors\u2019 Leo Moran on his mad passion for Gaelic football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Guitarist talks to John Scally about the twin flames of GAA and music in this extract from the book \u2018Where Heroes are Made\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leo Moran of The Saw Doctors performs at Electric Picnic on August 29 in Stradbally, Co Laois. Photo: Kieran Frost\/Redferns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16ba0dea-a22e-4049-8303-4b8a11f0d59b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leo Moran of The Saw Doctors performs at Electric Picnic on August 29 in Stradbally, Co Laois. Photo: Kieran Frost\/Redferns<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He is the man who lives by his own lyric: Maroon and White Forever. As a passionate fan of Gaelic football in particular, Leo Moran is proud that The Saw Doctors have become part of the furniture of the GAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 2009, the GAA began its 125th year celebration with a Late Late Show special devoted entirely to the Association\u2019s history. The opening of the show was The Saw Doctors\u2019 rousing rendition of N17. That famous road, the GAA and The Saw Doctors are now part of a holy trinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guitarist talks to John Scally about the twin flames of GAA and music in this extract from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[55538,18,117,19,17,26710],"class_list":{"0":"post-106597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-galway-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mayo-gaa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}