All-Ireland winner on his switch to boxing: ‘I can’t wait for the fight today’

"There’s a different excitement to hurling."

Tomorrow Waterford take on Cork in the Allianz Hurling League, a heavily underlined date for years in Niall McCarthy’s calendar, writes Michael Moynihan.

The man from Carrigtwohill was a central figure on Cork’s All-Ireland-winning teams of 2004-5, when his clashes with Waterford’s Ken McGrath were a highlight of the counties’ rivalry.