Clonoulty-Rossmore retain spirit of glory years

As he takes the call in the office of his Toyota dealership in Clonmel, John Kennedy looks at the framed photograph of Clonoulty-Rossmore’s 1997 senior county-winning team. The win, over Mullinahone, doubled the two-time All-Ireland SHC winner’s county senior medal haul, following the 1989 success against Holycross-Ballycahill.

That triumph 21 years ago, when Kennedy was 33, would seem a fine way to bookend a career, but he looks back on it with a degree of disappointment.