It’s a very small price to pay for the opportunity to be still calling drills and placing out cones in late November. At the Cloughduv AGM in late 2001, a discussion took about their intermediate hurlers. Two years after, the Cork county board split the intermediate grade in two and introduced the premier intermediate grade. “There was pressure on the lads in that winning Mid-Cork wasn’t enough, you were expected to go on and win the county,” Keane explains. “We’re just hopeful with the young lads coming through that this can be another successful period for the club.”

Source: Evening echo December 01, 2018 04:52 UTC