Behind enemy lines

GOOD FENCES make good neighbours. For Robert Frost, maybe. In Waterford and Kilkenny there’s no such thing as a barrier. Not when you have a Waterford man helping to sponsor the Kilkenny hurlers, and a Kilkenny hurler helping to dress the Waterford hurlers. Michael Moynihan tries to make sense of it.

IT WAS the Christmas party which got Kieran O’Connor into broadcasting.

The Glanbia communications and sponsorship manager was helping new Waterford radio station WLR out with their farming programme, when his impersonation of Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh went down a storm at a staff Christmas bash in the early 90s.