Lar not guilty as charged

Ned Kelly, the Irish-Australian folk hero, was a man who robbed, pillaged and murdered his way through life.

Ned’s father, Ned ‘Red’ Kelly, a Tipperary man, was dispatched to Australia on a convict ship in 1841 after stealing two pigs! Had old ‘Red’ never stolen those pigs, one wonders would his descendants have gone on to represent the Premier county on the battle field that is inter-county hurling.

Watching proceedings last Sunday, you get the sense they would have been drawn to such a militant response such would be their genetic disposition.