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20th Mar 2015

Pic: Roscrea are taking the Leinster Senior Cup to places it has surely never been before

This is great

Sean Nolan

It is too much for poor old Ross O’Carroll Kelly to take

On St Patrick’s Day, Cistercian College Roscrea won their first ever Leinster Senior Cup, beating Belvedere in the final. The Offaly-based school’s win was also remarkable for being one of the rare occasions when a non Dublin school took the crown,

And to really hammer home the rural/urban divide, former Wexford footballer Redmond Barry posted this picture from Snapchat on Twitter this morning.

Blackrock, of course, are the blue bloods of the game, winning 68 titles in their time. It was all too much for one of the living legends of the school scene, Ross O’Carroll Kelly.

Fair play to Roscrea, more of this please…

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