Seán O’Donoghue can join a select band of Cork hurling figures if he captains the county to an eagerly-awaited first All-Ireland triumph in 19 years
Cork’s upward trajectory no shock for Seán O’Donoghue as he focuses on final targetFew would have backed Cork for a place in the All-Ireland final after their lacklustre start to the Munster campaign, but O’Donoghue always believed the squad had the potential to compete for the game’s biggest prize.
O’Donoghue had just made a superb diving block to deny Mark Rodgers a goal, but when he hopped back to his feet the Cork defender stepped across Shane O’Donnell’s run and knocked the Clare forward to the ground. Cork led by the minimum at the time of the sending off, and Clare ultimately won the game by two points.
“Rush of blood to the head, didn’t even think about it. Stepped out in front of him and as soon as I hit him I said to myself, ‘What the hell did you do that for?’ So, it was just frustration. Sunday will not be O’Donoghue’s first rodeo in terms of captaining a team at Croke Park in an All-Ireland final. In 2014, he led Coláiste Choilm from Ballincollig to a 1-11 to 1-10 victory over Scoil Aodháin from Whitehall, Dublin in the All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Senior B Football final. O’Donoghue was a forward and scored 0-6 in that final.
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