Árd Scoil hungry for national glory

NIALL MORAN recalls a November afternoon from 2008. He took an Árd Scoil Rís team to Tipperary Town that day for a Dean Ryan Cupsemi-final against Blackwater CS.

The school had been steadily developing its hurling structures but after 10 minutes, the dream looked over. Hurling into a gale, they found themselves 10 points down.

Yet somehow they turned it around. A herculean display pegged Blackwater back and engineered a 2-14 to 1-10 victory. That was the day Niall Moran knew they were going somewhere with hurling in the school.