From RTE Culture Page- A Lyric FM Feature - Me Dog is Buried in Thomond Park. 

When Thomond Park was redeveloped in the mid-2000s, most people remember that, thanks to the new stands, the roar of Munster rugby was stronger than ever. Fewer recall the families who lived beside the ground long before the stadium took its present shape. These houses gave way to allow for the new build. 

For brothers Ron and Greg Carey, that piece of Limerick was simply their childhood home. Their house stood where a new stand now rises, and somewhere beneath the concrete and steel lies the resting place of the family dog—an unmarked but remembered grave.

In Me Dog Is Buried in Thomond Park, the brothers return to the landscape of their youth, not to remember what was lost but to trace what endures: memory, community, and the unexpected ways a place shapes a life. Both men began publishing poetry in their sixties, and the programme carries that late-blossoming creative energy—lyrical, wry, and full of affection for the people who formed them.

Across the programme, they meet voices from their past and present: their boyhood schoolteacher, still sharp and generous in his recollections; an architectural historian with insights on 50’s urbanisation of Limerick and of moving out of the inner city; the assistant manager of Thomond Park, reflecting on the stadium’s evolution; and the editor of Limerick’s Revival Press, who gave the brothers their first foothold in the world of poetry. And on the way we meet some of the Limerick people who inhabit the same world of creativity as the brothers. These conversations paint a portrait of a city that holds on to its stories, even as it changes. 

Ultimately, the programme is less about poetry or rugby and more about belonging. It follows two men in their seventies as they look back with humour and tenderness at the city that raised them. What emerges is a meditation on home, loss, and the enduring pull of the places we carry with us.