MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: As four youngsters step up to the adults’ table, what does it take to stay there?

Joe Deane was that soldier. In 1995 he starred on Cork’s All-Ireland-winning minor side and the reward was a move upstairs. The senior team.
“Jimmy Barry-Murphy, who’d managed us as minors, took over the seniors and he brought a few of us onto the selection,” recalls Deane.