‘Culchies’ playing big part in Dublin resurgence

IT’S almost unfortunate Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh isn’t commentating on Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 final. He would have been in his element reciting the native counties of the Dublin players’ parents.

He’d have had fun with a few of them. Tomás Brady and Dáire Plunkett, their fathers from Cavan... Shane Durkan, with family hailing from Mayo and Longford... none of them a hurling stronghold.

How the same expression might have applied to Dublin only a few years ago, but not any more.