When Eamon retired from The Kerryman in 2001 I invited him as guest for two hours on my Radio Kerry Terrace Talk programme. Now you can hear the voice of one of Kerrys great football sons for the first time in another historic interview captured for posterity by Terrace Talk.  It was one of the great evenings of this long running show. The switch boards lit up like a Christmas tree as listeners from far and wide send their best wishes to one of Kerrys most revered and brilliant journalistic sons. One of the counties greatest ever players Maurice Fitzgerald spoke eloquently and beautiful about Eamon and summed him up in relation to the high regard he had been held by Kerry players through the decades. "Eamon had a great passion for the GAA and that came through very much in his writing and we will be sad to see him go because when you get to know a person like Eamon after a number of years you probably leave down the guard a bit. Some reporters you would not be sure about but Eamon was very fair minded and very fair on Kerry players and I wish him very well in his retirement. He was a man you trusted. I hope he continues to enjoy the game and at least he can sit back and watch it from a different angle. He was in my opinion one of the great GAA reporters of the last few decads and I wish him well".

"Eamon Horan is a legend in sports journalism in Kerry and beyond. For me he is one in a million. He is in many ways a unique character and I mean this in the most praise worthy way possible.  I have seen it, the way he would walk into a room, not a tall man by any means; he would immediately command respect and instantly everyone knew that here was a man whom nobody ever had a bad word to say about.  People would automatically gravitate towards him.  We wish him a speedy recovery back to full health.  And words that John B Keane would reserve for only those who deserve them most are most appropriate in this instance. 'Eamon Horan an Officer and a Gentleman and a judge of good Whisky".

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