KILLIAN YOUNG GOT to witness some of the closing successful chapters of Maurice Fitzgerald’s playing days.
With his inter-county time with Kerry behind him, Fitzgerald was part of county winning sides with South Kerry and that overlapped with the start of Young’s senior career for those 2005 and 2006 triumphs.
When the news emerged last November that Fitzgerald was coming on board with the Kerry management team, Young was immediately looking forward to renewing acquaintances.
“I actually did play with him for South Kerry and won with him as well which was a nice touch. He’s a great guy. It’s nice to have a different voice in there.
“(He’s) somebody all the players look up to and respect so much as well, a hero of all of ours as well really.
“It’s fantastic to have him in. He’s really enjoying it as well. It gives you a boost, a different opinion and different views on the way we’re playing.
“It’s always great to have that from such a knowledgeable person and a man that’s such a hero in Kerry.”
Kerry got back to winning ways on Sunday against Roscommon yet their next challenge looms large.
They become the latest side to try to ground Jim Gavin’s high-flying Dublin team, a match that has whipped up a feverish level of anticipation with a sellout at Austin Stack Park on the cards for 18 March.
“There’s a massive build-up obviously for that game,” says Young.
“It’s kind of an unusual one really. Normally you’d hear a build-up two or three days beforehand at best for a league game and this has been going on for the last three or four weeks.
“It’s just because of the venue it is and only 12,500 (tickets) available, so there is a bit of a different feel to it.
“It’s an exciting part of the league where we’re playing games week in, week out. They’re on some unbeaten run, their confidence is there.
“It’s good to have home advantage and we’ll be looking forward to that.”
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Appears to be a really nice young fella. Hopefully he makes all the way in his rugby career. Best of luck to him.
@Cathal Keeshan: Very nice family ,let’s hope it works out for him he’s a great talent
As an underage hurler on the Development squad he stood out as having something extra.
Best of luck to him in his career.
Do you lads use that Poolbeg location for every backdrop ?? It looks like Chernobyl in the background.
@Gary O’Rourke: It’s outside PWCs offices on the quays
Tipperary won the minor hurling all Ireland in 2016
@Philip McLoughlin: also that would mean he would be over 20 now.
@Philip McLoughlin: The article states Leinster Minor Hurling title…. not All Ireland.
@Roibeard O’ Beachain: not 20 until July. He would have been 17 in the summer of 2016.
@Paul Ennis: no it does not it says “Dublin lost All Ireland semi final against Limerick the eventual winners” go back and read the article
@Philip McLoughlin: the article has been edited and corrected since the original one earlier which stated my previous comment
@Philip McLoughlin: And as usual, the42 doesn’t acknowledge their mistake like, say, the Guardian. Instead the site is happier to see a shitshow comments section featuring statements like “go back and read it.” It really wouldn’t take much for an editor to insert a sentence below saying a mistake was made and corrected.
@Philip McLoughlin: rewind and reread.
Regis Sonnes at Toulouse was talking about how hurling is an ideal game to learn transferrable skills for rugby.