The Powers Interview: 'I don’t want the gambling angle, the juice, to obscure that this is a hurling book' 

Are the Powers unique? Has any other hurling father with a Celtic Cross had two sons who repeated the feat? The achievement is there in football, as with the Brogans. But in the other code?

The summit: Richie Power Sr after Kilkenny defeated Cork in SHC Final on September 5, 1982 Picture: Ray McManus/SPORTSFILE

Richie Power Jr turns admirably wry when considering his new status as an author.

Power: A Family Memoir has just been published by Hero Books. His hurling career and his father’s hurling career provide the publication’s core. “Personally, I couldn’t be happier with the book,” he emphasises. “There are parts of it you really don’t like reliving as well, but you kind of have to do that too. Because, we said it at the start, you have to be honest. You can’t be 95 per cent in. Or 99 per cent. You have to be 100 per cent in.”