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07 March 2008
The following report is an On-the-spot description from a Waterford Junior Hurling match.... Nothing like this could happen in Clare - or could it???
"I was sixteen, it was the Eastern junior hurling final. My two brothers and my brother in law, were on the team to. It was played in Portlaw, Mount against Dunhill. No greater animosity was there ever between two clubs. There was five minutes to go, we, Mount Sion were winning by two points And Dunhill got a twenty one yards free, we were playing against a gale, we knew they would go for a goal. Franky Walsh told all to line the goal. We did, the ball was lashed in ,stopped on the line, and then the charge came from Dunhill. Twenty nine players in the square, all hell broke loose. I got two broken teeth, my brother in law had to be taken to hospital with his lip hanging off, all the supporters ran onto the pitch, we had to run to the bus, picking up our clothes on the way. On the way home we asked what's the story,whats goin to happen. We were told that the ref. had blown the full time whistle during the battle and we had won. I remember Seamus Power sitting next to me on the way home , he turned to me and said, now THATS hurling boy."
