HAVING genes from Fiji and Fermanagh — neither of them hurling strongholds — has proved no bar to a GAA legend getting the highest accolade his adopted city can offer.

It would once have seemed an unlikely friendship, given their prowess in different sports and their counties' neighbourly rivalry, but Cork's Setanta Ó hAilpín and Kerryman Tadhg Kennelly are now professional footballers and firm friends.

HURLING is Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s expression of thanks for the gifts God has given him, he reveals in a frank interview.