We were less than a year apart in age. We did all the usual brotherly things like playing football and loads of other sports together. Because there wasn’t much of an age gap, we were usually playing football, Gaelic football and other sports in the same team. We’d kick about in the garden or anywhere. It was just non-stop sport. Don’t get me wrong, we fought a lot of the time as well – we were brothers – but we had a great childhood growing up.
Football was important to us, and personally I was desperate to make a career in the game.