I was doing a journalism course in college about 20 years ago when much the same thing happened – Cavan decided to re-enter the National Hurling League after a few years’ absence.
I thought it might make a good story, got a phone number for their manager, and rang him for an interview. I finished up by asking him ‘realistically, what are your hopes for the campaign?’.
I thought he might say something like ‘hopefully we’ll pick up a win or two here or there’, but instead, he said something I’ve never forgotten.
‘Realistically,’ he said, ‘I’ll be happy if we get 15 players for every match!’

Brilliant to see them back, hopefully they’ll put a team in the league next year too

Still its always Kilkenny who get the abuse over football, when so many counties with bigger populations have the same issue with hurling(with a lot less success than Kilkenny)

Cavan for Liam 2017…Watch this space…

I remember when they disbanded the team and some shite footballer who captained the kilkenny football team had a go at the then cavan football manager, Val Andrews after Val questioned the legitimacy of kilkenny playing football. Hilarious stuff…

All this talk of hurling in Cavan & not one mention of Seanie Johnston??