Friends first for Glanmire’s much-travelled star Chantell Alford

Connecticut native Chantell Alford is looking forward to the start of this season’s basketball league with Team Montenotte Hotel Glanmire.

Having starred on last season’s league and cup-winning side, she’s well settled in Cork by now.

It wasn’t her strangest overseas posting. There was that brief spell with Sporting Al Riyadi in Beirut...