Tom Cashman: What made former Cork and Blackrock star a worthy winner of Battle of The Bridge

LEESIDE LEGENDS: Tom Cashman talks to Joe Deane in the 2001 Munster championship. Picture: INPHO/Patrick Bolger
“If you start thinking of that team, it’s the two Ray Cummins, it’s Frank Cummins, it’s John Horgan, it’s Tom Cashman. They’re the four that would spring to mind immediately and that’s doing a disservice to the rest of the team, who were all great players.”

“Jim is kind of similar, another fella who doesn’t need to be shouting and roaring or looking to be in the limelight. You’ve the nephews involved too – Jim’s sons Niall and John Cashman and Carol Cashman is the mother of Alan and Gavin Connolly – and they’re the same, maybe apart from Gavin, but goalkeepers are different!”
