The guts for glory

Waterford’s National Hurling League final triumph was the highlight of the spring.

Can the Déise drive on and convert early-season form into championship success? MICHAEL MOYNIHAN met star forward John Mullane to chew over the possibilities

ONE OF THE most recognisable men in Irish sport doesn’t attract much attention from the tourists lunching in the Granville Hotel in Waterford. To the American golf trippers and English stag parties enjoying an early-afternoon coffee, John Mullane — talking about a visit to Xtravision which turned up Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (“I’m into gangster films, but that wasn’t up there with the greats,”) — is just another punter.