Reluctant icon Brick rues the one that got away

“A lot of people probably wouldn’t think that I was much good at hurling,” Michael Walsh offers, suggesting later on that, “realistically, I was a very average hurler in terms of hurling ability.”

He holds the record for most hurling Championship appearances, is a four-time All-Star, and might even be Waterford’s greatest ever servant but Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh shrugs at the labels.

“A lot of people probably wouldn’t think that I was much good at hurling,” he offers, suggesting later on that, “realistically, I was a very average hurler in terms of hurling ability.”