Christy Ring through the eyes of those who marked him: 'No matter what way you played on him, he’d make you famous'

They left their mark, he left his. Matt Hassett and Martin Óg Morrissey were among those who sought to shackle Ring and they look back on those great duels, with the distance of time and perspective to inform their comparisons. PM O’Sullivan took notes

Christy Ring

You could say Christy Ring baptised Matt Hassett as a championship hurler.

“I suppose people were wondering where they found me,” Hassett laughs. “And I suppose after I marked Ring the first year, with not too much damage done, I was sort of accepted. I held my place, anyhow, for a couple of years. I wasn’t a Tipp star, or ever going to be a Tipp star. But I held on.”