Pauric Mahony ‘happy to be one of the boys again’

There’s a record Pauric Mahony wants to set straight. No, not that one. Not the lost time he wants to make up for having smashed his leg 11 months ago. That goes without saying.

Rather, it’s the contribution he made to the video which his Waterford team-mates watched prior to beating Cork in last year’s Munster semi-final.

Hailed as inspirational, Mahony’s take on it is different. “To be honest with you, that video got blown out of proportion because what actually happened was that Derek (McGrath) asked me to go into the Granville Hotel to do a video before the Cork game. So I went in there and they said ‘do a 30-second video’ and I actually couldn’t remember what I wanted to say and it took me about half an hour to do it. I just couldn’t get the words out of my mouth. So eventually they made it (look) as if I was just too emotional but actually I just couldn’t get the words out.