Sat, 16 Mar, 2019 - 05:40
PM O’Sullivan
“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.
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