No pressure as St Brendan’s look for ‘big performance’

THEY have no pitch or clubhouse of their own and played only three championship games in six months last year yet London club, St Brendan’s expect to cause Dr Croke’s a few problems in tomorrow’s AIB All-Ireland Club SFC quarter-final.

The obstacles facing the English team are all too familiar to clubs in the English capital since the arrival of the Celtic Tiger but the club is still managing to flourish in this the year of it’s 50th anniversary.

Where once the Irish community was a stable entity continually reinforced with new arrivals from home, it is now a more transient demographic with IT managers replacing brickies and chippies.