Bishopstown and Cork reap benefits of dual drive

Traditionally, Bishopstown may have been regarded as a football club, but nowadays it is the epitome of a dual operation.

While Ken O’Halloran and Jamie O’Sullivan are on the Cork football panel, captain Pa Cronin and Shane O’Neill will represent the Rebels in Croke Park on Sunday, with selector Johnny Crowley — the club’s first All-Ireland senior medallist — assisting Jimmy Barry-Murphy on the sideline.

Club chairman Denis Crowley, Johnny’s brother, said: “We have been senior in football for longer than we have been in hurling,” he said, “but the hurling is very strong. Since becoming senior, we have maintained that status and won two county U21 titles and last year we got to the senior final.