Another winter weekend passed off, swaddled in a patchwork of stories from the club championship guaranteed to fuzzy up the heart. Ardmore, perched on the cliffs of west Waterford, ended the Munster junior hurling final with a dozen players and still won. Knocknagree, the only Cork club in a Kerry parish, came from the top of the county and trumped Dromid Pearses from the tip of the Iveragh Peninsula in the junior football final. Climb up a few rungs and Liam Mellows were winning their first senior hurling title in Galway while Cuala won another Leinster senior hurling title. That bestowed a final trophy on Con O’Callaghan, who finished the year with nine, ranging from under-21 football titles with Dublin to a football All-Star, All-Irelands…

Source: The Times December 06, 2017 00:10 UTC