Keary keen to call time on Shamrocks

GAVIN Keary is a busy man these days. He’s 26, a publican, a hurling coach, and in his spare time, midfielder on the Loughrea team that faces Ballyhale Shamrocks of Kilkenny in Saturday’s All-Ireland Club senior hurling final.

The pub is his business, a leased business, so that what he gets out of it is directly dependent on what he puts into it. .

His coaching history is a story in itself, not so much the how – he’s qualified through the GAA foundation and level 1 courses – but where. “I spent three years coaching in Mayo, but employed by a single club, believe it or not — Castlebar Mitchells.