Gerald Fleming’s forecast for Wexford this weekend is…

The joys of weekend work. You know Gerald Fleming as the affable weatherman telling you to expect sunny spells and scattered showers, but those TV bulletins mean missing out on the sporting passion of the man from Wexford town.

“Hurling was the game in the town, and my father was from Cork, so we always had an interest in the game, and Wexford-Cork in particular. I hadn’t realised until the weekend before last that it was 1956 since we’d beaten Cork in the championship — my parents were at that game.”

Fleming’s father came from Castlemartyr, his mother from Wexford. It made for an interesting household when Cork and Wexford clashed in those 1950s classics featuring Ring and Rackard — and the All-Ireland finals between the counties later, in the 1970s.