Jamie Barron out to finish 2016 on high note

The conversation with Jamie Barron moves seamlessly between the two codes, every bit as fluent, in fact, as his juggling of both this year.

The Nire’s involvement in this weekend’s Munster club football final is an obvious starting point, but thereafter, several diversions materialise. There’s talk of kicking footballs in a Kilkenny jersey on the same day he collected his first hurling All-Star, packed houses at Croker and Thurles followed by the mad rush to complete the Waterford SFC in front of a few hundred die-hards in Dungarvan, changing how Waterford football is viewed from the outside, an afternoon in the company of the Gooch and the importance of Derek McGrath staying on as Déise hurling boss.

All told, 2016 has been good to Jamie Barron. And there is the potential for it to finish on the highest of notes, should The Nire make history this Sunday as the first Waterford football club to capture the provincial title.