Mulcahy has inside knowledge on CIT

WHEN Cork IT GAA officer Keith Ricken went searching 12 months ago for a coach for their Fitzgibbon Cup team, Pat Mulcahy ticked all the boxes.

The Newtownshandrum man had the hurling pedigree and the roots to the college to be a suitable candidate. He did a fine job in the managerial role as well, guiding the third-level team to the Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final last March. But now Mulcahy will be parking those loyalties as he prepares to face off against some of the players he trained in tomorrow’s county senior hurling semi-final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (2.30pm).

“It’s an unique situation all right,” admitted Ricken. “Pat came on board and did a brilliant job for us, along with another Newtown man, his brother Brendan. Pat would have been chairman of the hurling club when he was a student in CIT and captained us in the Fitzgibbon Cup as well.