“That’s history. The past is the past,” replies Kilworth manager Shane Tobin when it is put to him that his team has had no joy when facing Fr O’Neill’s in recent years.

They were selected as the nation’s sports team of the year, and exist on a Ladies Football plateau of their own making. But as this extract from Mary White’s new book ’Relentless’ shows, before there was serial All-Ireland success, there was a Rebel rebellion...

Kilworth are the first team into the Cork IHC semi-finals after easily beating Fermoy in Ballygiblin last evening.