If it's squeezing the last drop out of what they have, Erin's Own do it better than most

Good people coming together and pushing themselves to bring the best out of one another. If that is all it is, few do it better than the Glounthaune club.
If it's squeezing the last drop out of what they have, Erin's Own do it better than most

Brian Moylan, Glen Rovers, has his helmet fly off his head after a clash with Robbie O'Flynn, Erins Own.

Shane Murphy has seen it all over the past thirty years. As a young boy with his face painted red and blue, he savourted Erin’s Own winning their maiden Cork senior hurling title in 1992, and the bonfires lit around Knockraha in the aftermath still burn bright in his memory. 

Brian Corcoran and Timmy Kelleher were the main men, and such was the Corcoran's lustre that men from Tipperary waited outside the dressing rooms of the old Páirc Uí Chaoimh to get an autograph from the great man.

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