Kevin Moran: ‘Most at United thought I was just going home to have a kick-around with friends’
‘Codebreaker’ retraces the story of sporting legend that will never be repeated

Dublin's Kevin Moran during the Leinster 1981 SFC semi-final against Laois. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
Vincent Hogan
Even now, 43 years after he last wore that sky blue jersey, the most intimate furniture of Kevin Moran’s sporting life still seems, somehow, rooted in Parnell Park.
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