Michael O'Hehir became known as RTÉ's "voice of Gaelic Games". O'Hehir's commentaries on the All-Ireland football and hurling finals were hugely important, not just to the listeners in Ireland, but to thousands of Irish emigrants living around the world.

Listen here to a clip from Michael O'Hehir's second radio commentary on the All-Ireland Football Semi-Final between Kerry and Laois played on 21 August 1938.

The photograph accompanying this clip shows RTÉ sports commentator Michael O'Hehir standing outside the main television building at Donnybrook in 1963.

The photographer was Roy Bedell

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