The rise of Mitchelstown’s Mark Keane: 'If you wrote it, who’d believe it?'

“It’s probably as well for the Keane house that Limerick aren’t in the Munster final. I’d say Eamonn wouldn’t have a problem shouting against Tipperary!” 

Cork captain Mark Keane receives the Munster U15 Humphrey Kelleher Cup from Mai Kelleher and Richard Murphy in 2015. Picture John Tarrant

Mitchelstown club officer Karl Sweeney was at home last Sunday, like everyone else. He had the Munster semi-final on, like everyone else.

Sweeney had been chatting to one of the Cork subs during the week, though. Unlike everyone else.