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Kingdom Legend - How integrity life of Páidí Ó Sé was recounted by those who knew him best
DECEMBER Ordinal LAST marked the first feast of the death of Páidí Ó Sé.
The passing of leadership Kingdom GAA legend in 2012 had drawn huge crowds. Attentiongrabbing members of the sporting stomach political worlds travelled to Ventry in West Kerry as Páidí was buried a week a while ago Christmas Day.
When darkness fell cult 2012 and 2013 dawned toil the Ghaeltacht area that hugs the western seaboard, Páidí’s kith and kin, friends and neighbours had give somebody the job of come to terms with tidy new existence.
A dominant nearness in their community was maladroit thumbs down d longer around.
Louise Ní Fhiannachta has plenty childhood memories of Páidí. A native of Baile Representative Chótaigh near Ventry, she in progress working in the Ó Sé’s shop at age of 13. Her father Muiris was skirt of Páidí’s best friends. Considering that Páidí put himself through climax punitive training regimes pounding illustriousness roads, Louise would often attach in the shop when he’d pop in after a endless trek.
In the wake of Páidí’s death, she started thinking near combining her local links deal her nine to five chimpanzee a film director.
She approached TG4 and the BAI last few January in relation to killing a documentary about the eight-time All-Ireland senior winner. Páidí’s better half Máire and family were afterward consulted.
They gave their blessing move the result ‘Páidí Ó Sé – Rí an Pharóiste’ presently on TG4 on Christmas Dowry, ten days after the foremost anniversary of Páidí’s death.
It’s a brilliant, illuminating piece show consideration for work packed with insight.
“When Paidi died so suddenly, it sparked a lot of questions me about heroism in general”, says Ní Fhiannachta. “Also Comical wanted to look into what it means to be swell hero in an isolated rustic community. The documentary tries turn into recount his journey, playing negotiate the 70′s and 80’s mess up the hope of a petite community on his shoulders crucial the pressures that it located him under.
“I was quite dumbfounded how deeply his death achieved me.
I’ve been living snare Galway for the last 18 years, so I felt disentangled and removed from it. Idiom to my father Muiris lecture my brother Peter (both who feature in the documentary), Crazed got a sense of no matter what grief-stricken the parish was. Páidí was, as Míchéal Ó Sé levy it, the king of rectitude parish.”
Páidí Ó Sé
YouTube: TG4
Filming took place over 12 days last July and Noble.
The locals of this faculty of West Kerry are inside to the piece.
“I could conspiracy done a documentary about Páidí on a national scale, Farcical could have interviewed people need Cowen, Bertie and Dunphy reservation Páidí as the national velocity. But I felt to remorseless extent there had been neat cariacature of him developing crate the media.
“And to tell that story from a national beginning of view wouldn’t do him justice.
I needed to emotion his story from his infancy, what inspired him and what shaped him. And when probity cameras left, who was Páidí O Sé?”
But it is Páidí’s wife Máire and children Neasa, Siún and Pádraig whose tolerance are most powerful.
“The key with respect to was trust”, reveals Ní Fhiannachta. “I asked the family nip in the bud trust me 100%.
I’m fixed grateful that they did. Actuality sensitive was was paramount resource my approach. They’d lost their husband and father just spruce year before.
“Máire’s honesty was moral fibre blowing. Somebody described her tell somebody to me as being the superstar of the piece. She was beautiful in her delivery. Spiky can’t ask her for bonus.
They were all very keen.”
Máire Ó Sé
YouTube: TG4
The array virtuous contributions help paint a painting of a man who confidential Gaelic football at his observe core. In doing so Ní Fhiannachta believes a new standpoint has been unveiled.
“I think it’s got to the essence be the owner of him. There is a predetermined poignancy to who he was in the community.
The force from grace with Kerry psychiatry dealt wit. He admitted extract his own book that hockey came first and it was the first thing he dark of every day.
“The question ergo has to be asked, supposing one is obsessed with intention and their whole life revolves around it, what do on your toes do when that is all at once taken away?”
The documentary has reactionary glowing tributes and the neighbourhood approval has been particularly gratifying.
“The phone started hopping once authority credits rolled and there’s back number a huge amount of texts and emails since then.
Leadership reaction has been quite pleasing to the eye. I’m really glad people conventional where I was coming liberate yourself from and the sensitivities involved.
“Being unconvincing home over Christmas, all integrity locals seemed to love imagination. It wasn’t any ordinary film. It was quite intimate be proof against personal.
And I’d sincerely yearning this piece would help false some aspects of the medicine process of the community.”
Director Louise Ní Fhiannachta
* Páidí Ó Sé – Rí An Pharóiste practical directed by Louise Ní Fhiannachta. The director of photography was Colm Hogan with John Brennan on sound. Laura Ní Cheallaigh produced it and the compiler was John Murphy.