Brother Damien: The silent man behind the Kilkenny success story

Jackie Tyrrell estimates that at least 20 of his teammates that won All-Irelands from 2009 to 2015 would individually avail of the expertise and guidance of one Brother Damien Brennan

LEGACY: Damien Brennan in his time as Kilkenny minor manager in 2003. Pic: INPHO/ Tom Honan

Soon after Jackie Tyrrell began to meet and rave about the counsel he’d get from a particular priest and principal, a classroom in Callan CBS came to resemble that little office in Shawshank where Andy Dufresne was approached by a prison guard to help with his tax returns.

“A trickle,” as Mark Townsend writes, “had become a flood.”