Win is even better than Harty success, says jubilant McGrath

ON THE crest of Derek McGrath’s shirt is the slogan, ‘Harty Cup 2007 – believe.’
Win is even better than Harty success, says jubilant McGrath

Prior to this season De La Salle had never won the storied Munster colleges’ title. This year, however, the young Waterford co-manager (along with Dermot Dooley) was determined to break the mould and a couple of months ago, De La Salle had that long-awaited win. All-Ireland champions, however, did they believe in this?

“We believed in the Harty, but to be perfectly honest with you, we kind of took the approach that we’d hurl with abandon in the semi-final against Castlecomer, hurl free, but then when we won that we said to ourselves we could have a right cut off the All-Ireland,’’ McGrath said.

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