How Kanturk navigated along a championship dual carriageway of hurling and football

With the club’s footballers facing Aghada in the semi-final of the Cork Premier Intermediate championship last weekend, the hurling manager had ample warning that he would be operating with a skeleton crew in the days beforehand. Of the five on hand, two of them were goalkeepers. What to do but cut your cloth to suit your measure?

Lorcan O'Neill and Aidan Walsh, Kanturk, battle for the dropping ball with Tadhg Twomey and Colm O'Donovan of Newcestown at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Picture: Jim Coughlan

Many is the club manager who has scanned the field at training on a midweek night and counted with one hand the number of players. Few of them have done it less than two weeks before a county final and accepted it as par for the course.

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