Noel Skehan, Kilkenny goalkeeper at the All Ireland Hurling Final, Kilkenny v Cork, Croke
Park, Dublin on September 4, 1982. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile. Change is the defining constant of the human story. To live is to accept that nothing stays the same. From one decade to the next, the world transforms industrially, technologically, and socially — always evolving into something new. Ireland, too, has changed. Not long ago, the Catholic Church stood unchallenged; to question it was to…
