From the mountaintop Kanturk see new horizons

Lorcán McLoughlin doesn’t want a full stop put after Kanturk’s All-Ireland intermediate club final win.

Sunday’s one-point triumph over Ballyragget at Croke Park was the club’s 16th consecutive championship victory across both codes. In the space of four months, a “once in a lifetime group”, as hurling manager Donagh Duane has described them (11 players feature on both the Kanturk hurling and football teams), have landed the Cork intermediate football, Cork premier intermediate hurling, Munster intermediate and All-Ireland intermediate hurling titles.

In two months’ time, presuming the Cork board begin their local championships in April, Kanturk will meet Newtownshandrum in the first round of the senior hurling championship. It will mark the first time a club from Duhallow has played a senior hurling championship fixture.