Hoggie lights up the middle field again

Patrick Horgan looks a man perfectly at peace with one chapter closed and still hopeful that the best days are to come. 

Glen Rovers' Patrick Horgan, under pressure from Charleville's Finbarr Cagney, scores a goal in the county quarter-final. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

Hang the expense, the lights are still on around Glen Rovers’ middle field. Training done for the night but the scene picture perfect. Up above, club men and women, young and old, visitors from near and far, hurlers past and present, jam the clubhouse in honour of home superstar, Patrick Horgan.

Dónal Óg Cusack holds court, intoxicated by hurling. “You could feel hurling the minute you came in the gate.”