Jim Hayes grew up watching Christy Ring play before becoming a teacher in Scoil Barra, Beaumont in the mid-’70s. He organised internal school hurling and football competitions and Christy Ring presented the trophies at the finals on June 26, 1975. He interviewed some members of the successful Cork hurling team of the day, then Ring himself. “The schoolboy hero was no hero to me anymore when I realised that I was on an even par with him. “I was in and out of the Cork team, playing minor, junior and senior in league matches.

Source: Irish Examiner October 30, 2020 18:00 UTC