Knocknagree light up Croker with final flourish

John Fintan Daly has known AIB All-Ireland club success at Croke Park at a higher level in the past; namely with Milltown-Castlemaine in the 2012 intermediate decider.

Yet for all kinds of reasons, managing his own club Knocknagree to the junior title was a particularly special experience.

It was in Knocknagree in November 2011 that Daly, returning from Mallow where Milltown-Castlemaine had just won a Munster semi-final, stopped the team bus and addressed his players.