Minor celebrity bainisteoir fills void in Manhattan

I was extremely confident last summer that when, in this column, I revealed my return to hurling after a 15-year absence, I would be opening myself up to an onslaught of well deserved ridicule.

It was a huge gamble on my part — not just because of the audacity it takes to pick up a hurley again and magically expect to have that all-important first touch.

There was also the weekly worry that no reader outside my immediate family could possibly be interested that New York had given me this second chance.