Tipp’s James Barry has inside track on Waterford players

James Barry knows the opposition in next Sunday’s Munster SHC final well. The Tipperary full-back lined out in some tough Harty Cup battles in 2008, when current Waterford boss Derek McGrath was managing De La Salle.

“Derek’s brought a lot of them on since through schools hurling, some I would have hurled with at UCC, the Mahony brothers, Darragh Fives, Jamie Barron.

“I wouldn’t have played a lot against them at inter-county hurling but I would have come up against a few of them through the years in the Harty Cup and Colleges hurling.