The last and only time St Flannan’s College and Nenagh CBS played in the Dr Harty Cup final Tipperary’s senior team were reigning All-Ireland champions, but Clare were on the cusp of the glory years, writes Joe Ó Muircheartaigh. Harty Cup final. “Clearly the outstanding forward on view, Captain O’Connor led by example,” said The Clare Champion. “Nenagh CBS will be bidding to add their name to the illustrious list of Harty Cup winners and who is to say that they will not upset the odds,” wrote Gerry Slevin in the Nenagh Guardian. And yet tradition has a way of seeing the odds upset from time to time and St. Flannan’s are only too well aware of this.