Glanmire's hunger game

Three of us hunched around a small table beneath the UCC Mardyke gym in Cork and there are no giveaways that Claire Rockall and Áine McKenna are history-chasing Glanmire and Ireland international basketballers. Proven winners.

Until losing is mentioned. That drops the temperature a notch.

“The Cup semi-final (against Cork rivals Brunell), we went into it thinking ‘this is the be-all and end-all’. If we lose here, we’ve thrown it all away”, says Áine McKenna.