Stars of the small screen battling for the spotlight

A few years ago they were prime-time TV material, their clubmen and local passions cast onto Celebrity Bainisteoir’s nationwide stage.

But today they meet in a game that will mean so much more than the ephemeral reality TV competition: the Cork IFC final between season 1 runners-up Mayfield and series 3 also-rans Fermoy.

Mayfield, for one, have long since ditched the 5-star hotels, blazers and celebratory cigars that the cameras and star gaffer Gerald Kean were attracted to.