Post by mafi97 on Dec 22, 2022 21:12:53 GMT
While his family will miss Mixie the man, we the supporters will miss Mixie the footballer. Even though he had already secured his All-Ireland medal in 1953, he will be forever remembered, like all his team mates for their performance on that great day in 1955.
Stitched in my memory is my father coming home disgusted from the 1952 Munster Final in Cork where we were trounced by Cork. The scoreboard did not remotely represent the extent of the beating. My father, that most abstemious of men had obviously fallen into bad company - he kept prowling the kitchen declaiming that "without Marcus O'Neill, Paddy Bawn and Mixie Palmer" we would never be able show our faces in Cork again.
I had never heard the name Mixie before, so it was imprinted in my brain. So over the next few years, my ears pricked every time he was mentioned. And then when he came through in such sterling fashion in the second half of the 1955 Final, it was like a validation of all my hero worship expectations.
Rest easy Mixie, and thanks for all the memories.
