A picture has emerged of a young Patrick Kielty in the squad line up which secured an All-Ireland win for Co Down 36 years ago.
Kielty took to the pitch in Croke Park with his Co Down minors team in 1987 and secured an All-Ireland win.
Now we can reveal a picture of the new Late Late Show host Kielty as a 16-year-old sportsman in a never-before-seen team photo.
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The father-of-two is pictured front row on the left of the black and white image togged out for the team on his hunkers.
Kielty was a sub that day, but he played alongside James McCartan and Conor Deegan as they defeated Cork by 1-12 to 1-5 in that final at Croke Park.
“I played minor for three years,” Kielty previously told The42. “I was only 16 when I made the minor team in ’87. My brother was on that team with me.
“I was a sub on the team in ’87 – that’s why we won. I want to make that very clear. I played in ’88 and ’89 and we won nothing in both those years.”
Remembering his GAA days fondly, Kielty previously told the Irish Mirror: “Myself and my brothers were football mad growing up in Dundrum, Co Down and as kids, every spare second was spent on the pitch across the road from our house playing out our own All-Ireland Finals.
"To be part of a Down minor team on All-Ireland Final Day was a dream come true – even if I didn’t make it off the bench that day. Though some would say that’s the reason why we won!”
Meanwhile Ryan Tubridy has poked fun at himself about no longer being on telly anymore as he is just days away from finishing as host of the Late Late Show.
The RTE presenter drove to Limerick yesterday to host his radio show and while on the road he spotted an Apple Map car on the motorway.
Taking to Instagram, he joked: “We are now heading down to Limerick, we are in the car and because I won’t be on TV for the foreseeable future, there is only one way I can secure my next gig and that is by being featured on Apple maps. It’s the future.”
Tubridy will hand over the baton to Kielty this Friday as President Michael D Higgins appears as his final guest on the show.
Kielty then takes over the reins of the Friday night chat show in September.
“I’m really, really happy about this choice. I have to say, I said it before. I think I probably said it off air that I was very, very supportive of the suggestion that he might take over the show,” Tubridy said.
“I just think he has – what they say in the business – the chops. He can cover the heavy side of things and he’s got a background that will inform that.
“And he will also obviously do the lighter end of things with great skill because he’s a comedian and funny guy. He’s also, independent of that, a lovely fella.
“I really want to wish him the very, very best. And look, I think he’ll be great for the Toy Show as well, because he’ll be well able for it as the dad of young kids, he has a great, smart sense of humour, he’ll be all over it,” Tubridy said.
“So I just think the show is going to be in really safe hands, he’s got himself backed up with a great team which no doubt he will be, and he’ll be fine, it’ll be great.
“And I’m just happy that, I mean, it’s not really my thing to be talking about any more necessarily in any big way, because I know that I’m nearly the ex guy, but I just want to put some wind in his sails as he heads forward on this extraordinary odyssey.
“Good guy, great future ahead for The Late Late Show. Great decision. I wish him great happiness and great success.”
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