With God on their side

The Moyross monks are taking on the cream of Munster sport in a charity event, writes David Young

With God on their side

“YOU play to fight the idea of losing.” It’s the mantra Eric Cantona once drew on his torso. It’s also the maxim that will be on show in Shelbourne Park, next Sunday, when a team of Munster Sporting Legends dare to take on a team with a difference — the Moyross Monks.

The reigning Munster Challenge Cup champions aren’t to be trifled with. They are hard-tackling, no-nonsense men of the cloth, who ply their daily vocational trade on Limerick City’s northside. Why the collision of these elemental forces, you may wonder, the heavens versus the heroes?

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