Larry Tompkins chuckles when he thinks of Dr Con Murphy's quip to delegates at a seminar in a Killarney hotel many years ago.
The story goes that Cork's team doctor for the last 42 years was talking about Jimmy Burke of Mayo swallowing his tongue in the 1989 All-Ireland football final when a delegate piped up. "Do you reckon you've ever saved anyone's life on a pitch?" he was asked.
Sugrue, the Kerry man who refereed the drawn football final between Cork and Meath in 1988, had to be ushered off the pitch that day after enraging Cork supporters with a couple of huge calls.