Ken Hogan: Tribesmen have something to prove

There was a time, of course, when Galway-Tipperary had a toxic edge to it. So toxic, in fact, that a man could be endangered even when mowing his lawn.

“I live on the main Birr-Portumna road,” says Ken Hogan, laughing, “When I was playing, the people heading through to Galway would nearly drive over you if you were cutting the grass outside the house.”

Lorrha clubman Hogan barred the goal on the Tipp side that broke their famine and returned the Premier to the promised land in the late 1980s.