A village, a club, a family

AIB MUNSTER CLUB JHC FINAL:

It was gruelling, back-breaking work, a test even for the farm-hardened men from this rural parish in the hills beyond Lismore.

“One day alone we had 17 tractors stuck in the field – they had to be pulled out one by one!” laughs Pat Bennett, a local star who would go on to play with the county.