6 MICHEAL O MUIRCHEARTAIGH was a poet of the moment. He had an innate ability for metaphor, a knack of elevating the mundane to the marvellous. Among his gold-plated one-liners, this humdinger: “The stopwatch has stopped. It’s up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.” 6 Micheal O Muircheartaigh sadly passed away this week Credit: Sportsfile - Subscription In a way, O Muircheartaigh was God. And not just to the GAA faithful who, regardless of their tribe, hung on his every word — he was a deity for all of us. Words flowed...