Sean McCarthy: 'The last 10% that was needed, Canon O’Brien was the man to get that out of players'

Sean McCarthy keeps possession from Tipperary's Declan Ryan, left, and Pat Fox during the 1990 Munster Senior Hurling Championship final at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Now well known in Cork for his bars and restaurants — SoHo, Paddy the Farmer’s, Tequila Jack’s — Sean McCarthy was the epitome of the tearaway wing-back in the late eighties. Picture: Larry Cummins

It was a time when the Cork hurlers went to games in a fleet of cars, and Sean McCarthy was usually in the same company.