Indo GAA podcast: Football – Micko, jerseys and foreign trips Galway should be mad to tear into Armagh
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Pat Spillane and Dick Clerkin join Michael Verney this week, and before we preview the last week of the All-Ireland group stages, Dick's old jerseys sends us down memory lane - Pat especially with all the ways Mick O'Dwyer used to raise funds for the Kerry team holidays.
On the field, Dessie Farrell and Pádraic Joyce are under serious pressure as the group stages will claim their victims from this year's championship.
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