When boyhood dreams come true

NOEL Connors can go back. Maybe not way back, but far enough. He can recall watching the Waterford hurlers in 1998, though that’s a pretty prosaic description to use. Idols would be closer.

“You’re looking at these fellas out on the field and they’re your idols, you’re thinking, ‘I’d love to be out there with them’.

“You’d be going to matches and you’d bump into them and if they noticed you and said ‘well’ to you, you’d be delighted.”