Three-time All-Ireland winner John Fenton says the almost 20-year wait for an All-Ireland since 2005 has been hard to take in hurling-mad Cork
John Fenton of Cork in action against Limerick's Pat Creamer in 1987. Fenton won three All-Irelands and captained Cork to glory in 1984. Photograph: InphoCork will play Limerick again, this time at Croke Park, and, for those of a certain vintage, it’s a fixture that always drags the mind back to 1987, John Fenton and that goal in Thurles.
The footage is there in all its glory on YouTube, a long Ger Cunningham Cork puck-out breaking loose off Tomas Mulcahy, Fenton cleverly shovelling the sliotar ahead of himself before doubling on it and sending it fizzing past Quaid. Was he 45 metres out? Easily. It felt like it came from somewhere down near Hayes Hotel.
“Look, he just happened to be the goalkeeper that was there, he was a great goalkeeper. His son is doing fantastically well.” “When I struck that ball, I could see a red jersey in front of the goals. I think John Fitzgibbon was there, I didn’t know who it was but that’s what the target was. Look, the ball bounced, I hit it, it was a good day, a lively sod and the ball took off. I did that thousands of times in training, I was bound to get one right.”
Fenton was speaking at the launch of the 23rd annual Circet All-Ireland GAA Golf Challenge. It will take place at Killarney GC on October 17th and 18th. Glenflesk clubman Jerry O’Leary, who suffered serious spinal injuries in an accident, will be this year’s beneficiary. By the time the golf begins, Cork could even have ended that All-Ireland drought.
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