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Ó SÉ: A LEGACY ***Final***

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Episode 3:

Páidí Ó Sé’s heroics on the GAA pitch inspired a generation. His career as Kerry player and manager is now legendary. So his early death three years ago came as a shock. After winning eight All-Ireland Senior medals, his stewardship as Kerry manager harried the team out of a ferocious losing streak with their sparkling 1997 trophy win.  He brought Sam Maguire home again in 2000 before being controversially sacked three years later.  Páidí may have been knocked down, but he got up again with spectacular success in 2004, managing Westmeath to their first-ever victory in the Leinster Championship Final. But Páidí Ó Sé had another side. He was determined to put his beloved Ard a Bhóthair on the map in west Kerry.  To do so, he embraced the worlds of business, politics and entertainment.  In the wake of his death and as his 60th birthday approaches, family and friends assess Páidí’s broader legacy, including his dream of building a locally strong community at the heart of what was arguably his greatest love: County Kerry.

Series Overview:

Three men, three families, three legacies from three different realms of Irish life: politics, business and sports.  Brian Lenihan: the inheritor of an Irish political dynasty, Fianna Fáil party stalwart and Minister for Finance during a time of unprecedented crisis—both economic and personal.  Tony Ryan: the visionary behind GPA and Ryanair as well as the instigator of the current global success in Irish aviation leasing—as well as a man who faced several financial showdowns during his long business career.  And Páidí Ó Sé, the Kerry football legend, whose broad legacy sharpens into focus as family and the wider GAA community come to terms with his recent tragic death at the age of fifty-seven.