Ardscoil star with an enviable bloodline

SHANE FITZGIBBON never got the chance to play Harty Cup hurling but it didn’t prevent him becoming a senior hurling star with Limerick.

Nowadays the Adare man who played with the county from 1984 to 1993, hopes his son John will follow in his footsteps once his school days are over.

But already young John is ahead of his father in one department having starred for Ardscoil Rís in their path tomorrow’s Munster Colleges SAHC decider against Thurles CBS.