The big interview: O'Sullivan cousins explain how Tralee's becoming a Warrior town

Tralee is buzzing for hoops. The Complex is gripped by Saturday night fever. Even football people are backing the basketball team in their droves and they’re not just following the Star. First cousins Darren and Fergal O’Sullivan are important figures in the Tralee success story. Ahead of tonight’s National Cup semi-final with Pyrobel Killester at the Mardyke Arena, they explain how a town became united behind the Warriors

The big interview: O'Sullivan cousins explain how Tralee's becoming a Warrior town

Tralee is buzzing for hoops. The Complex is gripped by Saturday night fever. Even football people are backing the basketball team in their droves and they’re not just following the Star. First cousins Darren and Fergal O’Sullivan are important figures in the Tralee success story. Ahead of tonight’s National Cup semi-final with Pyrobel Killester at the Mardyke Arena, they explain how a town became united behind the Warriors

Lunchtime on Rock Street and while the Castle Bar has a framed illustration celebrating how no other club or thoroughfare in the country boasts as many Celtic Crosses, the clientele and staff at the bar counter are as immersed in basketball talk, past, present and future, as they would be about football here or in any other GAA hostelry in the county.

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