Double vision as Kerins craves that elusive hurling medal

FUNNY the curveballs life can throw at a man. Alan Kerins was 23 before he took up football and yet he has All-Ireland senior medals at club and county levels.

Hurling, on the other hand, is in his blood and yet that elusive All-Ireland title eludes him.

Not that he hasn’t come close. Kerins has featured in two All-Ireland finals with Galway but suffered the same fate as with his beloved Clarinbridge when they were beaten by Birr in March of 2002. Finals have been kinder to him in his guise as a footballer. Within a year of taking up the game, he had a Celtic Cross after coming on as a substitute in Galway’s defeat of Meath in 2001.