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A quarter of a century ago the hurlers of St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield reached the mountaintop when winning the All-Ireland senior club title in Croke Park, recalls Joe Ó Muircheartaigh who looks back on the finest hours of the ‘Parish’. “I think it was great the way we flew up this morning. There was no hullabaloo of coming up last night and meeting people beforehand. We just came into Croke Park, met nobody and then went out and did the job. We can meet everyone now with the cup.” Lorcan Hassett, 17 March 1999 THE CARPARK in front of the old Grove bar in Roslevan that’s long since been developed is where they met everyone with the Tommy Moore Cup – the back of an articulated truck was their bandstand, as one by one they were introduced. The Grove, which in those days of a more relaxed interpretation of the licensing laws had a ‘Live at Three’ moniker lived up to …
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