'Cork without Mick Curtin would be like God without his angels'

"We can all take inspiration from your 30 years of passion, hard work and unrelenting loyalty to Cork football."

STERLING SERVICE: Cork great Billy Morgan makes a presentation to Mick Curtin

Can a man be synonymous and nearly anonymous? Mick Curtin might have managed that trick. Known to anybody with an inkling about Cork football. Perhaps not too familiar to those outside that circle.

The Valley Rovers clubman has been kitman, logistics expert, equipment manager, whatever you want to call him, to the Cork footballers for three decades. He has served under nine Cork managers.