‘The publicity is given to the Super 8s and the county teams, but everyone loves the small fish’

In the Croke Park dressing room, it became real for the Kanturk hurlers. Anthony Nash turned to Lorcan McLoughlin and gave the feeling a name.

“I said to him, ‘you wouldn’t want to leave the dressing room’. You don’t want to walk out and have the moment end.

“You know in a couple of days, lads are going to start moving on, they have to go back to play colleges or fall in with the county or whatever, to get ready for the leagues at club level.”