Murphy savouring Sarsfelds’ golden age of success

Tomorrow afternoon Sarsfields of Cork take the field against Limerick champions Kilmallock in the Munster club championship.

It’s Sars’ fourth voyage in the provincial competition in the last seven years, a golden age of success by any standards. Tadhg Murphy, the Sars chairman, can remember when silverware wasn’t found in Glanmire as often.

He says it conformed to the stereotype of the rural outpost for many years, before the growing city absorbed it: “There was a local village mentality for a long time, we were a small place outside the city and I suppose survival was the main concern in the early days.”