Rian O'Neill has lit up this All-Ireland championship
McNulty has had two lives. The first saw him win an All-Ireland with Joe Kernan’s 2002 team. Then, when that curtain fell, he emerged as Ireland’s leading sports psychologist, on the staff when Longford Town won soccer’s FAI Cup; there when Leinster started gathering Heineken Cups.
Forty eight hours they were standing next to one another when Johnny Sexton went down with an injury; Ireland’s lead hanging in the balance. McNulty was close enough to hear Mick Kearney, the team manager, tell Carbery to strip off his tracksuit, that he was about to make his debut.“It reminded me of a calf in spring time being let out of the shed and onto a field for the first time,” says McNulty, “because Joey didn’t run onto that pitch, he bounced. He had 100 per cent confidence. He oozed it.
“In everyone’s journey, there is always a tipping point, when you realise you can go further, when you draw confidence from an achievement. “In certain games you catapult yourself onto the next level. That was one of those games, that semi final. It required emotional toughness, resilience, years of conditioning, being a well coached team, all those contributing factors led to their win.”
“You see him everywhere. His passing range is phenomenal so he can be a playmaker; he is 6 '3 so he can field balls in midfield; his athleticism is second to none so he can track back and then when he is close to goal, he has that ruthlessness that you need.”
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