Luke Meade living Cork dream since Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s call-up from school

Every schoolkid dreams of playing for their club, their county, or their country. Few are still wearing the uniform when that dream comes true, but Luke Meade was.

A sixth year student at Hamilton High School in Bandon at the time, he was on a break from class when a member of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork backroom team punched in his number and asked would he be interested in training with the senior panel.

“It was weird enough,” Meade recalled yesterday at the Bord Gais Energy All- Ireland U21 championship launch in Dublin.