Clockwise from top-left: Michael ‘Spike’ Fagan on the attack for Westmeath against Dublin, with daughter Melek after she had played a match for Mullingar Shamrocks girls team and in action for Mullingar Shamrocks against Lar Gillivan of Moate All Whites in the senior football championship match of 1996.
In conversation with Paul O’Donovan
This week Topic met up with Michael ‘Spike’ Fagan and spoke to him about his memorable sporting career, at the height of which he was playing for his country against Australia, alongside one of the greatest midfielders in the game in Kerry’s Jack O’Shea.