Glory dayas Effin brave hearts beat odds

“ALL for one and one for all,” the motto coined by Alexandre Dumas for his fictional Three Musketeers; it could instead have been coined for the very real hurling warriors of Effin.

In a tale every bit as full of dashing as anything Dumas ever penned, in less than two years this little club from the south Limerick-north Cork border has gone from rags to previously undreamed-of riches.

It’s all down to a group of players who simply refuse to lose, who have shrugged off the shackles that saw Effin – as proud a hurling parish as any in the nation – slaves to a losing history, too long without a single adult county hurling title.