Mike Quirke: Diarmuid Connolly repertoire easy on the eye

I was in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght early on Saturday morning to watch St Brendan’s from Tralee win their first ever senior national title, beating Leixlip Nemunas in the intermediate cup final. 

It was a big game for Tralee, and Kerry basketball as a whole; a county that has long been a hotbed of the minority sport but has been starved of top-flight hoops action for too many years now.

A rejuvenated Kieran Donaghy was the inevitable hero of the piece, posting a stat line of 18 points, 26 rebounds and 12 assists. An exceptionally rare triple-double; like something you might get if you were playing the game on the PlayStation.