Reluctant coach finds Muskerry on verge of glory

GARY McPOLIN knows the trouble loose talk can get you into. Last year the former Macroom star was at a game when he fell into conversation with Paddy O’Mahony of the Muskerry GAA board.

O’Mahony was looking for a coach for Muskerry’s footballers but McPolin, a busy Garda sergeant in Blackrock, declined.

“I told him if he was stuck for a selector to give me a shout. Lo and behold, I got a phone call in January to tell me I’d been ratified as coach,” said McPolin,