Babs: I’d say we’d beat the current team by 25 points

Tipperary’s Babs Keating and Kilkenny’s Pat Henderson met in Clonmel, Co Tipperary during the week. Diarmuid O’Flynn spoke to them.

Diarmuid O’Flynn: “When did ye first came across each other?”

BABS KEATING: “At minor, with the county. The school I played with, the High School here in Clonmel, wasn’t good enough to compete against Pat, in Thurles CBS. I cycled in to school, eight miles, and I don’t know if you were ever out that road, but it’s a lovely drive — not so nice though if you’re going home from school on a dark evening with wind and rain, tired and hungry, facing up to Knocklofty Hill and the belly falling out of you!”

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