Tomás Mulcahy on his Glen versus Barrs memories and what makes the rivalry so special

After the North Mon beat St Colman’s in a Dr Harty Cup semi-final on Saturday, February 24th 1979, Michael Ellard, in the Cork Examiner, offered ‘bouquets to both sides for a vastly entertaining game which won the admiration of the extremely big attendance.’ 

Amongst that large crowd in Buttevant was Christy Ring, attending his last game. The hurling icon would die suddenly the following Friday in Cork city. Almost a footnote, The Examiner report noted a 15-year-old T Mulcahy, who came off the bench to score the game’s final ‘superb’ goal – and evidently the last one that his clubmate Ring would ever witness.