Cuala can bring title to DublinMaurice O’Callaghan reckons the Cuala GAA club had no more than 200 members when he was secretary back in the 1990s. His sons, Cian and Con, who will line out for Cuala in the AIB All-Ireland club hurling final at Croke Park today, were toddlers at the time and are among 1,600 members now. Hurling is now fashionable around Dalkey, the affluent south-Dublin suburb where Cuala hail from, and the stranglehold exerted by rugby, the sport traditionally associated with the area, has loosened. “In our time, if you played hurling or football in the area, you were kind of viewed oddly,” O’Callaghan senior, who helped the club win their first Dublin hurling title, in 1989, said. “There was no…

Source: The Times March 17, 2017 00:00 UTC