Canning banking on experience as Portumna set for Croker

ARE you better off going into an occasion as potentially nerve-wracking as an All-Ireland club senior hurling final wide-eyed, fresh and green; or cold and calculating?

Two years ago unfamiliarity with the biggest day on the GAA club scene certainly didn’t do Portumna any harm as they defeated Newtownshandrum in a hard-fought low-scoring game.

As they again head for Dublin on Monday and a date with Birr, captain Ollie Canning, has no doubt about the mindset he’d prefer to have.