Austin Gleeson: ‘We’re very close, like a club team, but it’s more than a club team’

From that helmet tug to that goal, to his relationship with manager Derek McGrath... Waterford’s Austin Gleeson sat down with Examiner Sport.

AUSTIN Gleeson strolls into the lobby of a Waterford hotel and relaxes into an armchair. The still point in a stormy world.

A couple of days beforehand, in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final, Gleeson scored one of the great Croke Park goals, slaloming through the Cork defence, before improvising his flicked finish, beating the best goalkeeper in the country.