Dunphy: We’re going to give it our very best shot

BY any yardstick, De La Salle’s qualification for today’s AIB All-Ireland club hurling final is a monumental achievement given that they were intermediate 10 years ago.

Last November, at the second attempt, they caused something of a sensation by winning the county championship and many pundits have been amazed to see the roller-coaster take them all the way to Croke Park.

Lismore were the last team to beat them in the county championship — in the 2007 quarter-final, when according to manager Owen Dunphy, they were ‘fancying themselves big time,’ after coming through the group stages unbeaten.