Decoding hurling’s Moneyball moment

WHILE you sit there on the train or in the canteen or outside the school gate, ponder this one: what’s the connection between hurling in north Kerry and Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt?

As Castleisland man Con Houlihan often wrote: read on.

The star of films like Oceans 11 — whose allegiance in the Kingdom’s senior hurling championship is sadly yet unknown, though in Fight Club he had the thighs of someone who trains regularly on the dunes of Banna Strand — is currently filming the movie Moneyball, a big-budget production based on the best-selling and extremely-influential book by Michael Lewis.