Mixed emotions for Cuala’s Kerry fans

Tomorrow morning, a dozen or so of Darragh O’Connell’s closest friends and family will leave Abbeydorney in Kerry and point their cars towards Carlow.

Later on in Abbeydorney’s clubhouse bar, a much bigger crowd again will assemble to watch TG4’s live coverage of the Leinster club hurling final between Cuala and Oulart-The Ballagh.

O’Connell, of course, is the former Abbeydorney and Kerry player now plying his trade with south-Dublin club Cuala, and doing very well for himself indeed.