O’Connor flies flag for the Banner at Cork IT

IT is more than 150km from Tubber, the North Clare parish that skirts the border with Galway, from the epicentre of Cork GAA that is Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Yet few people will be making that journey this weekend.

Banner native Patrick O’Connor is part of the CIT squad bidding to lift the Sean Óg Murphy Cup and the Clare senior hurler is embracing the novelty of the occasion.

“Being from Tubber, it is strange to be involved in a Cork senior final. But it’s a great honour and I think a few of them from home will probably come down for the match to make a weekend of it. There’s not many Clare men who can say they’ve contested for a Cork senior medal so I’ll treasure it if I get my hands on it.”