This is the road Tadhg Kennelly is now on. Just before six on Christmas Eve morning it took him to Maroubra Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. David Eccles was waiting. This is where it all started. It was just the two of them back then, dozens more tagged along this week.
There was no grandiose master plan, it all just kind of happened.
At first, it was simply two friends trying to help each other out – Kennelly found himself in a low and unfamiliar place after losing his job as an assistant coach with Sydney Swans in May 2020. Eccles, originally from Tyrone, made it his business to check in with the Kerry man.
From this act of friendship, a movement was born. These days, some…