From tormenting Tipperary to training winners, Kieran Purcell still having the craic

“When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I see over the bed post is a blue and gold string. So you can imagine what it’s like in my house, can’t you?”

A cackle of laughter follows from Kieran Purcell, who revels in what is now known as banter but in his day and mine was simply ‘the craic’. And there is plenty craic on the Kilkenny-Tipperary border.