'They all want their picture up on the St Kieran’s College wall'

“You have to remember they all want to get up on the wall,” Tom Hogan says.

St Kieran’s College, two of us chatting in The Glasshall, a conservatory type corridor lined by photographs of alumni and hurling teams past. The main corridor is similarly bedecked.

History holds intimate in this school. And so much of history, in Kilkenny, is what happened on the soft fields of early spring.