Brennan braced for Ballybrown test

Having re-established their respective places in the senior hurling ranks in Cork and Limerick, Ballinhassig and Ballybrown go in search of further silverware when they meet in the quarter-final of the AIB Munster club IHC at Páirc Uí Rinn today.

The Rebel champions were back training the week after their victory earlier this month and they’ll be hoping this could be the start of a journey that will help them atone for their All Ireland final loss to Dicksboro in February 2006.

“When we met on the Friday after the final, the players said they wanted to have a cut off of the Munster campaign,” explained selector Peter Brennan. “We had three good training sessions and a football match the following week. We met Kilworth then in the league final but we had a bit of a hiccup. Hopefully that was due to the hard training and that is not to take from Kilworth’s win.