Hanrahan hoping for a super Saturday

“Don’t let the game pass you by. Don’t worry about the outcome, worry about the job at hand. What are you going to do? Thinking about winning doesn’t mean you are going to win. Don’t sit back and wait for it.”

This could be Rob Penney’s pre-match war cry for Munster before today’s Heineken Cup clash against Gloucester, it isn’t. These were JJ Hanrahan’s final words to his native Currow prior to today’s Kerry IFC final, it’s his advice. It doesn’t matter what the level of sport, the emotion is the same. Don’t play the occasion, play the game is the familiar mantra. It is one Hanrahan lives by.

A Munster Heineken Cup game in Thomond Park and Currow v St Mary’s of Cahersiveen in the Kerry IFC final are a world apart but Hanrahan’s story provides the link.