Living the hoop dream

AFTER years of success with Glanmire in ladies basketball, Mark Scannell realised his appetite wasn’t what it used to be.

Living the hoop dream
Sat, 14 Jan, 2012 - 00:00
Michael Moynihan
Michael Moynihan

He reckons he brought through three different senior teams and didn’t know if he fancied developing a fourth.

Then Neptune knocked on the door.

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