New Rebel captain ready to go

CORK hurling manager Denis Walsh may not remind many observers of Santa Claus, but his new captain might disagree.

Kieran ‘Fraggy’ Murphy of Sarsfields was visiting friends up the country the day before Christmas Eve when Walsh rang and asked to meet the following day.

“I didn’t know what he wanted to tell me,” says Murphy. “To train over the winter, or to play in the Waterford Crystal League or what – but when we met up he outlined where he was coming from, his plans, and he asked me to be captain.