Inspired by their fallen friend

REBEL ÓG MONTHLY SPORTS AWARDS

The journey to All-Ireland schools success only took them so far towards the light at the other end. Shane Murphy’s death offered them perspective and understanding.

“With sport in schools, you are using it as a vehicle of education,” says their legendary coach, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan. “The death of one of their friends, one of our pupils, was a trauma that was extremely difficult to deal with at the time, the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with, but they’ve come out of it positively.”