Feel-good factor finally returning to Offaly hurling

FEEL-GOOD FACTOR: Jason Sampson of Offaly during the Joe McDonagh Cup final media event at Croke Park. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Jason Sampson's earliest hurling memory is of watching then GAA President Joe McDonagh presenting the MacCarthy Cup to Offaly captain Hubert Rigney in 1998.

A quarter of a century later, Sampson is the current Offaly skipper looking to get his hands on the cup named after Joe McDonagh this weekend.