Donncha Fahey: Tipperary and Waterford never a cut-throat rivalry

Donncha Fahey won an All-Ireland with Tipperary in 2001. He was always Tipp, he maintains, but geography would have let him hurl for Waterford too. Better placed than most then to trace the peculiar border intimacies that even saw the great Mick Roche slip from one side to the other.

Donncha Fahey gestures behind his head, off right.

“It’s immediately County Waterford, once you go over the bridge,” he says. We are chatting in his office in Bank of Ireland on Main Street, Carrick-on-Suir. Fahey has been branch manager since December 2014. Although we are sitting in County Tipperary, over beyond is no further than the proverbial stone’s throw.