Confident Carrig may have found right formula

CARRIGTWOHILL line out in the intermediate county hurling final tomorrow.

They’re used to this altitude: in 1949 they won the competition but stayed out of senior to backbone Imokilly’s bid for county senior honours in 1950. Imokilly were unsuccessful, but Carrig won the intermediate championship again anyway and went up.

These days they’re not as patient. In 1960, their last year in the top grade, they’d been in the senior championship for 58 seasons. Carrig have been intermediate since winning the junior county title in 1994 and Jim O’Connor, who starred on that team, acknowledges that the east Cork men didn’t build on the victory.