Rampant St Brendan’s find competition toughest on the training ground

The squad. It’s been all about the squad for Gary McGrath since last September. The St Brendan’s manager never envisaged that Tuesday evening training would end up carrying greater weight than a Corn Uí Mhuirí knock-out fixture. Results simply dictated as such.

En route to today’s Hogan Cup decider, you see, St Brendan’s College have come face-to-face with the reigning Hogan Cup champions, the present Leinster champions and the leading teams from Clare, Kerry and Tipperary. And they didn’t so much as edge past each school put in their path, as steamroll them.

A quick recap: in the Corn Uí Mhuiri quarter-final, McGrath’s students hammered back-to-back Hogan Cup champions Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-14 to 0-4; they limited St Flannan’s to a single point in the first-half of their semi-final non-contest and they blew Clonmel off the park to the tune of 29-points in the decider.