The Big Interview with Tooreen's Cathal Freeman: 'The truth is hurling is dying a death'

Heard about the 29-year-old Mayo footballer who went back to college to study medicine and hurl Fitzgibbon? And is now closing on bringing a first-ever All Ireland hurling club title to Mayo? While winning Sam was once his obsession, hurling has always been Cathal Freeman’s passion

For a moment listening to Cathal Freeman describe a childhood steeped in the wonder of hurling, you’d think he was like any other country lad that he plays Fitzgibbon with in Limerick.