Kerry legend Maurice Fitzgerald received his Sigerson Cup medal on Saturday - a quarter of a century after helped UCC to win the prestigious third level football competition!

Fitzgerald missed the presentation in 1988 due to county team commitments, but a new medal was minted and presented to him at an event to mark the Silver Jubilee of the success in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork at the weekend.

Des Cullinane, who was a selector with the victorious UCC team, explained to the Irish Examiner: "Because we presented the medals on a Tuesday night and he had to go home for Kerry training, he ended up never being presented with the medal.

"Maurice is such a quiet guy, he didn't make any big issue out of it. He wouldn't be the kind of fella to go screaming and shouting looking for it to be presented.

"When the notion of a reunion came up, I said that it'd be the perfect opportunity to put it right. Ivan Ahern (a UCC team-mate of Fitzgerald's) got his medal for me and we handed it in to Gerald McCarthy, who made a copy for Maurice." Tweet

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