Liam Fennelly and Patrick Holden’s Ballyhale memories: ‘Finbarr’s nearly had a Cork team of their own. But we didn’t mind’

“Whatever it was, I wish we could have bottled it,” Liam Fennelly says.

His voice is caught between memory and wonder. He is thinking of a dressing room, of a ferocious silence. Ballyhale Shamrocks are in Semple Stadium, waiting to take on St Finbarr’s in the 1981 All-Ireland club final.