BAILE MHIC GIOLLA MHUIRE, Offaly, Ireland - The boy, a foot or more shorter than his grandmother, had a soccer ball at his feet, kicking it against a table stand. Around him, engulfing him, was a mass of Irish humanity, emitting the distinct humidity wrought by the ancient marriage of warm bodies and semi-cold beer. The kids were dressed for soccer. The fathers were dressed for Orlando in March. The mothers (and grandmothers) were dressed for church. Mary O´Brien draped her right arm over her grandson´s slender chest and pointed the boy, Daire Garby, to one of the three TVs in the Esker Hills Golf Club clubhouse. Just then, the club´s native son, Shane Lowry, was marching up the home...
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