'You have to have lived through the heartbreak to appreciate what it means when you make it'

Mayo aren’t the only team in Ireland trying to end a famine, you know. Some club teams in the Rebel County enjoyed reaching the promised land last weekend, as Michael Moynihan found out 

This was a good week for the Banteer hurlers. Last Saturday they broke a pretty unfortunate sequence, after all.

“We last won the Duhallow junior championship in 2006,” says club chairman Kevin Roche.