HUNGARY FOR MORE
As greatest living Irishmen go, Troy Parrott just jumped the queue on Bono, Brendan Gleeson, David Clifford, Sean Kelly, Jimmy Barry-Murphy, Paul O’Connell, Rory McIlroy, Roy Keane and Graham Norton. By Sunday evening, Dublin International Airport had been renamed after the hat-trick hero of the Republic of Ireland’s last-seconds heist in Hungary. Why? To quote RTE commentator Darragh Maloney in Budapest: “One last throw of the dice, it’s all on this from Caoimhin Kelleher, [Liam] Scales is up after it, Scales wins the header, it’s a chance … there’s the goal! That’s Troy Parrott … that’s unbelievable.”
