Chris Nolan and Mount Leinster Rangers looking to scale new heights in football after winning hurling crown

Carlow star committed to small ball at county level but enjoying bid for glory in another code

Chris Nolan in action against Eamonn O’Shea of St Mullins during the Carlow SHC final at Netwatch Cullen Park. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Mount Leinster Rangers is better known as a small-ball club these days, having won six of the last nine Carlow senior hurling championships, but it wasn’t always this way.

The Borris-based outfit is made up of three clubs – Ballymurphy, Rathanna and Borris – that joined together for the first time in late 1987 to form Mount Leinster Rangers. Borris were Carlow senior football champions in 1911 while Ballymurphy were football kings in ’47 and ’53.

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