Returning hero Canty remembers home town influences on career

AFTER the riotous celebrations on the national stage in Croke Park on Sunday, last night saw the Cork squad return to the heartland of football in the county.

The team bus departed the city yesterday afternoon after the traditional Tuesday lunch in the Heineken brewery with their journey mapped out to culminate over 50 miles away in Bantry, the home of team captain Graham Canty.

En route, the team tipped their hats towards history and made a notable pitstop. Sam Maguire, born in the townland of Mallabraca outside Dunmanway in 1879, is famed as the eponym of the trophy awarded to the All-Ireland senior football champions and yesterday afternoon the canister was brought back to the square in his native town.