Harty Cup final a nursery for the hurling heroes of tomorrow
Does it still have that cachet? James Barry won an All-Ireland with Tipperary last year to go with his Harty Cup medal with Thurles CBS in 2009. It’s a good indicator of the hurling health in a county, he says: “Absolutely, we’d be happy with any Tipperary school doing well — Nenagh won it a couple of years ago, Templemore now, as long as you have a Tipp school involved you feel things are going well. You’d like it to be your own school, but if Tipp teams are going well you can expect lads to come through onto the minor and U21 teams and then onto the senior team.
“In my time, Noel McGrath was the main man with Templemore, for instance, so you knew he’d be coming onto the county minor team and so on.”
