Mount Sion: The centre-back factory for Waterford hurling

A couple of weeks back Austin Gleeson gave a superb exhibition of centre-back play in Walsh Park for the Waterford U21s as they rolled to an impressive victory over Tipperary in the Munster final.

For many fans Gleeson’s power, fielding and striking were classical evocations of some of his predecessors in the white and blue number six jersey: The kind of players that teams were traditionally built around.

What’s unusual, though, is just how many of those predecessors also came from Gleeson’s club, Mount Sion.