Anthony Daly: TJ Reid and Ballyhale just know what it takes to win big matches
TJ Reid takes time to sign an autograph for supporter Matthew Groarke at the end of the game. Picture: INPHO/Ken Sutton
We always associate this time of the year with county finals and the provincial club championships, but there’s another unglamorous and tension-gripped side to early November hurling too, which can cut far deeper than a county final loss.
On Saturday, I was in the rain and wind-swept Clonlara to watch my beloved Clarecastle get relegated to intermediate. We were last in that grade in 1931, when we won the intermediate championship, but a 90-year unbroken sequence of senior hurling was finally severed.
