For the love of the game

Put it to Fintan Goold that a Munster medal has been devalued in recent years and the answer you get provides an insight into both his attitude and appreciation of history.

Though the Macroom man started provincial finals as a teenager in 2005 and ’06, he has not done so since. He offers the tale of one of the town’s most famous sons, the late Tom Creedon, to illustrate just what winning another medal would mean.

“My dad would have played with Tom for Macroom for many years,” Goold said, “and he played for eight years starting on the Cork team and never won a Munster medal.