Éire Óg ready to take the final step

Before John Leahy established himself as a Tipperary senior hurler and was followed by Eoin and Paul Kelly and Paul Curran, their club, Mullinahone, were associated more with football.

And so it is that the exploits of Daniel Goulding and Ciarán Sheehan have helped Éire Óg, renowned as a hurling club, to come under a dual heading. Should the Ovens side defeat Castletownbere in tomorrow’s IFC final, they will ascend to premier intermediate, a higher grade than they play at hurling, which would be a first.

“My age-group would have been the first to start playing juvenile football at A level,” Goulding explains, “and that team just kind of carried the whole way up.