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EXCLUSIVE LOUGHNANE AND McGEE X X X INSIDE: YOUR FULL 7 DAY TELLY LISTINGS X X X X SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2017 2 6 IS FEARR AN STAR FREE (inc vat) 9 771649 438769 Saturday July 1 2017 55p NEW ChicCMOVIES SPIDER-MAN STAR ZENDAYA CRAWLS ONTO THE A-LIST! FASHION HIGH OR LOW? SUMMER Jim answers SKIRTS UNCOVERED INTERVIEW ROB KEARNEY’S great call BEST SECRETS Miriam O’Callaghan: MY MONEY of China PAGES 74&75 GOES ON THE KIDS! MAG 1 Chic 12-PAGE HURLING EXCLUSIVE PULLOUT STOREY STARTS PAGE 27 OF MYWEXFORD hurling hero Martin Storey has opened up about fighting back from the injury that ended his nursing career — while dealing with his children’s health issues. And the 1996 All Ireland-winning captain told how hurling helped his son and daughter LEGEND: in their struggles with Martin; (right) 16-PAGE cancer and MS. lifting Liam SEE PAGES 78&79 McCarthy cup DERBY LIFE after 1996 win PULLOUT ■ Wexford ace ■ Son’s mouth ■ Daughter in STARTS PAGE 33 unable to work cancer battle fight with MS REPORTS COMMENT EXCLUSIVE Karl Karl Karl Karl O'KANE O'KANE O'KANE O'KANE COMMENT REPORTS COMMENT EXCLUSIVE [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Karl Karl Karl Karl THE IRISH DAILY STAR, Saturday July 1 2017O'KANE O'KANE O'KANE O'KANE 78 COMMENT REPORTS COMMENT EXCLUSIVE [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ‘GAA DON’T DO ■ GAA WEXFORD LEGEND’S CHILDREN DEAL: ENOUGH FOR KarlFormer O'KANE Karl O'KANE Karl O'KANE Karl O'KANE Wexford COMMENT REPORTS COMMENT EXCLUSIVE [email protected] captain [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MENTAL HEALTH’ Martin Storey with his daughter MARTIN Storey pulls up I Karl O’KANE and current his Wexford polo shirt to Wexford show you where Camogie player they put the rods MARTIN Storey had challenged the GAA to do Ciara Storey at more on mental health issues. in his lower back. “If there’s one thing the GAA fails on, it’s the announce- KarlThen O'KANE he pulls down mental health issues,” he says. ment of Pat The the front of the top. EXCLUSIVE “Everyone has this perception of a big, Baker’s five- [email protected] rods plates and physical, strong man, and you will do all that, year deal with screws, this time down but when everybody goes home… the WGPA his neck and chest. “I am a psychiatric nurse, working in that The 52-year-old former field. I’d know a good few players I work with psychiatric nurse hasn’t that have mental health issues. worked for four years now, “I’d love to see the GPA set up an aftercare since the day one of his patients thing, and I’d love to get involved in it to see it fell on top of him. happen. He heard the snap, and his life “I mean, I could name six, eight ex-players changedTHIRD forever. MAN TACKLE Karl O'KANE who would have mental health issues and (in The 1996 Wexford All-Irelandwith the) club I could name maybe 20, and there’s winning legend [email protected] you his story, actually nothing out there for them.” but there isn’t an ounce of self- All-Ireland winning captain in 1996, pity. His own accident was only Storey feels fortunate that he was able to the start of it. move on once the curtain came down Life has thrown a hell of a lot at on his inter county career. himself, wife Rosaleen and their He continues: “I had no problem kids, but the way he sees it, adapting after giving up. None. every family has their crosses Sure, I played club senior until I to bear. was 46 and played junior until Health last year. I was 52. Daughter, Ciara, the “It was just that you love it, but Wexford camogie star I got as much kick out of junior was diagnosed with as I did out of senior because to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) me it was about hurling. in October 2015. “It was about what you can The 27-year-old is sitting in give, what you can coach. the same room as Martin in “Lads talk to you about the the Herbert Court in biggest game of your life. I Ballsbridge, a picture of hurled with both my sons, inter- health, operating at the mediate with my eldest, junior highest level in her chosen with my youngest. To me that was sport. as big as any day I was in Croke Son, Martin Óg, has battled his Park. way back from mouth cancer and “Now, you couldn’t put it on a win- forced his way onto the Oulart- ning similarity, but on an achievement the-Ballagh senior side. similarity, sure it was the biggest thrill I “Every family gets their ups got. and downs” says Storey. “Going out in a junior county final with my But, when it’s your kids? 16 year old son hurling beside me. I know we “That’s tough, but the two of got bet and all, but them are the memories them were so strong that it’s bril- you have. liant,” he says. “That’s what hurling does. People don’t real- “Ciara’s back doing everything. ise the good that hurling does.” She changed her lifestyle a little He got “pure enjoyment” out of the last bit and horsed back into it. three seasons with the juniors. “It’s due to her character and Enjoy her strength, that she won’t give Storey says: “It was the only hurling I really into it. enjoyed because the rest of it was win at all “Rest would be the big thing. costs. She’d try and catch a nap every “You can’t enjoy hurling. People tell you day if she could, 20 minutes, they enjoy hurling, they are telling lies. It’s half an hour. dog eat dog. That’s it.” “She would have improved He continues: “I remember after getting her food and cut out most of her beaten in the Leinster semi-final in ’98. alcohol, except when they win Johnny Dooley scored a goal in injury time something. and we were two points up. “She’d try to mind herself a bit “I’ll never forget it. I remember the next better and she’s hurling out of morning I didn’t want to get out of the bed her skin. Them are the highs that and the lads got up for school. Rosaleen just you get.” said to me, ‘It’s half eight, you Low might as well get up’. The lows have been pretty low “I said, ‘No, I’m going to too. He recounts the conversation cover up my head here now he had with son, Martin Óg, as and pretend it’s Sunday morn- NEVER they went to see a cancer ing and we can hurl that specialist. match again’. “She said, ‘No, When you hear the word, ‘can- you can never do that’. cer’, it’s horrible, your gut “I remember lying in the bed wrenches,” says Storey. “Your thinking, ‘Jesus this is the gut twists. worst day of my life’, and I “The one thing I wanted to do could hear the lads was make sure that it was no big downstairs laugh- deal. ing and skitting, “I went with him when we the kids before were going in. I just picked they went to him up out of college, met him school. and said, ‘Look it, we could “Sure, you be getting bad news in here’. jump up and go ENDING “He said, ‘What do you down and that’s mean?’ I said, ‘I think this is it. cancer’. “You get over it “He just looked at me, and you plough threw the eyes and said, ‘Ah on and you go f**k sake daddy’, or back training with something. the club on “I just said, ‘Have yourself Thursday night prepared because when they and all of a sud- do a biopsy and you get word den the biggest back within a week it’s usu- thing in your life ally not good news, so just is winning a county have it in your head’. title. “He went to the jacks, came “That’s what hurl- back. We went into the sur- ing does for you. STOREY geon and he was using all “That’s what sport fancy words. I said it to him, does for you. It just ‘Spit it out straight, tell the GOAL: Offaly’s keeps you going.” Miracle Martin has been through hell chap that he has cancer’. Johnny Dooley THE IRISH DAILY STAR, Saturday July 1 2017 79 IN FIGHTING FORM DESPITE THEIR ILLNESSES CHIP OFF THE LEINSTER SHC OLD BLOCK: ‘We will The victorious Oulart-The- beat this, Ballagh corner- back Ciara Storey with her FINAL that’s it. dad, former Wexford All Wexford Star Martin, v Galway We have to after the 2015 All-Ireland Croke Park, Senior Club attack it Camogie final tomorrow, 4pm LIVE RTE BACK IN THE FOLD: Donaghy in action for Kerry head on’ Kingdom recall ace Donaghy KERRY have recalled I Kieran Donaghy for John O’DOWD tomorrow’s Munster SFC Final against Cork at been named at wing-for- Fitzgerald Stadium, ward to the exclusion of Killarney (2pm).