Kerins glad he held off on retirement

ALAN KERINS was seemingly omnipresent around Croke Park yesterday as Clarinbridge became the latest Galway representatives to All-Ireland club hurling honours.

Was he full-forward, centre-forward, midfield, wing-forward? He started at full and seemed to finish at centre, but really, after an opening 20 minutes in which Clarinbridge were all at sea, Kerins was everywhere, a will-o’-the-wisp man-of-the-match performance that left no less a centre-back than Brian Hogan floundering at times.

It left him an exhausted but happy man at the finish, proud owner now of an All-Ireland senior club medal at both hurling and football (Salthill/Knocknacarra 2006).