‘The bedroom was in Kilkenny, the kitchen in Waterford’
Shem Downey: “Every crow thinks their own little crows are the whitest, don’t they? Things are very different now – my first All-Ireland final, going up, we got a pair of socks, last year the boys got a new suit for going up to Dublin, then they also got a new suit for that night, and all new gear for the game itself. We were born in the wrong time. I remember when I was going to the CBS here, we were going to hurl Munster one day in the colleges, Leinster against Munster, and I asked my father for some money – “Didn’t I buy you a new top-coat recently?” he said. But he did give me money, eventually, a half-crown.’’
Diarmuid O’Flynn: “Was the CBS boarding that time?”
