An Arctic blast from the past

Con Houlihan liked to tell the story of his first ever assignment as a sports reporter.

It was a long-ago club hurling game in Kerry which, according to the great man, was played in such ferocious, hurricane-like conditions that, when it was all over, he took a certain grim satisfaction in being able to file an understandably brief match report which carried the deathless scoreline: 0-0 0-0.

With the weather the only thing anyone is talking about — well, that and the VAR, obviously — it seemed appropriate to put in a call to Cork City manager John Caulfield and ask him to pick a stand-out weather event (as we’re now obliged to call them) from his days as a player with the club.