Former Music Magazine Editor Finds New Passion in Hurling

Declan Bogue WHEN YOU GET a hold of Danny Kelly, you imagine the conversation might meander through his time documenting his obsessions of New Order, The Smiths, through to The Stone Roses, all acts that he had side-stage access to as editor of the NME and, later, Q Magazine.

What you don’t bargain for, is a granular debate where he fleshes out and gives vent to his unabashed hurling snob credentials by insisting there are too many scores in the game and the GAA ‘Need To Do Something About It.’ “And I was able to predict to them the exact sequence of events of the game, and that’s how it turned out. Now, that was a bit of luck in my case.“I can’t expect them when I am sitting there in a studio in London, to understand the passion for this thing. When you tell people how many people turn up for an All-Ireland or a provincial final, they can’t get over it.

“And for a kid who was brought up right, slap in the middle of London , it was an insane thing. The freedom! The fields, the trees, the animals. The fact you could go riding on the back of a tractor and nobody would look sideways at you…” “So I was completely aware of it. I went to see hurling matches at Wembley. One of my uncles took me to see them in Wexford and I can’t for the life of me remember who was playing.

That’s all the Ireland’s Own stuff out of the way. Danny Kelly is a geek. It doesn’t matter if it’s music or sport, he’s going in for the Deep Dive. He can’t help himself. “I went to Thomastown this summer, a championship game and there was 1,500 – 2,000 people at the game. I mean… the population of the town is 2,000. So that’s like 11 million turning up for a football match in London!

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