Saturday’s final in Nowlan Park brings together Offaly’s Adam Screeney and Tipperary’s Darragh McCarthy.
THEY MAY BE teenagers but Adam Screeney and Darragh McCarthy are the box-office breakout stars behind the instant sell-out that greeted the All-Ireland U20 hurling final ticket release.
Offaly boss Leo O’Connor said of Screeney this week on Midlands 103: “Adam is a total natural sportsman. A very good golfer as well. He’s one of these guys who’s blessed that no matter what sport he picks up, he’s good at it. He’s competitive at everything. He wants to win everything. “That last point from Darragh McCarthy, I don’t know how he hit it over the bar but he did. That bit of genius deserved to split the teams in the finish.
At schools level, he completed a remarkable hat trick of Leinster A, B, and C titles across two years with the Offaly Schools combination and Coláiste Naomh Cormac. While the amalgamation team wasn’t permitted to compete for the All-Ireland A title, Screeney collected the B and C national honours. In the B final, he scored 2-13 of his school’s 2-17 total as captain, with 2-4 from play.
“There were lessons we’ll take on board. They knew that we had two big scorers in the forward line, and they won’t just go and let them get their scores.” He has become used to signing autographs after games for flocks of children but is happy to oblige. His youth was spent hunting down signatures off TJ Reid, Henry Shefflin, and Joe Canning. Indeed, he is still the proud owner of a hurley bearing Canning’s signature with Sellotape over it to act as a protective layer.
They came back on a mission the next year to carry the school to their first-ever Harty crown, with 1-50 from all-action captain McCarthy in five games.
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