A rebel with a cause

For awhile there he’d become hurling’s great forgotten man.

Ben and Jerry and Curran all retired, Dónal Óg went down injured, then Seán Óg and Gardiner were dropped. In the case of Tom Kenny, it was as if he had just drifted, he was hardly mentioned, even upon his recall.

It was only last week, his second game back in the starting line-up, that his name was thrust back into the spotlight. The qualifier against Offaly had been a tense, tight, tricky affair but in the end, Cork had enough poise to see it through and in his post-match interviews, Jimmy Barry-Murphy would claim that Kenny in particular personified that grace under pressure.