Keano effect: call to twin Cork with Sunderland

A MAN once voted the country’s top GAA fan kicked off a campaign yesterday for Cork to twin with Sunderland.

Cork county councillor Gerry Kelly, who was named a Giant Among GAA Fans in 2000, called on Rebel city chiefs to cash in on the so-called ‘Keano effect’.

He wrote to city manager, Joe Gavin, asking him to consider initiating a formal twinning arrangement between the two cities.