After the famine comes the feast for Doyle

Gorey isn’t exactly a camogie hotbed but it has played a massive part in the journey of this Wexford team to this year’s All-Ireland final.

Current senior team boss JJ Doyle, who hails from the Marshalstown club just outside Enniscorthy, unexpectedly cut his managerial teeth in Gorey while serving six-and-a-half of the nine years he spent in the priesthood before retiring.

He was playing with the Gorey hurlers at the time, all of them top-class players. But his efforts as a priest to establish a connection with the wider community unwittingly took JJ along the road to the heights which he has visited with the Wexford team in the last few seasons.