Graduation day for the boys of Cork IT

THE wheel has come full circle. When Cork IT took their first tentative steps into Cork senior hurling championship waters back in 2001, it was a grim experience.

Carrigtwohill was the scene of their devastation when Sarsfields administered a heavy beating, over 20 points separating the teams at the final whistle.

Now a decade on, there is neat symmetry in the fact it is Carrigtwohill who stand between the students and a place on the roll of honour for the first time. They may not slip neatly into the parish ethos that defines the GAA but as he has gone around their Bishopstown campus this week, the college’s GAA officer Keith Ricken has still detected a sense of anticipation ahead of tomorrow’s showdown.