In 'There I long to be – life through a GAA lens', Mick Clifford traces the cultural and social aspects of the association in one of its heartlands, South Kerry, all the way to the spectre of 'superclubs' in cities like Dublin and Cork today. In this excerpt, 1950s Ireland comes alive at a time when in rural Ireland there was a tug-of-war for supremacy between religion and Gaelic football