While it’s not unusual for former county stars to play into their late 30s as they retain their quality and lean on their experience, even if the body isn’t quite as willing, examples of those continuing to excel well into their 40s are obviously far less common.
With the club season now in the business end, tales of heroes of yesteryear still producing heroics are cropping up all over the country.
It didn’t stop there as Doyle inspired them to a Leinster intermediate title before they were beaten by even champions, St Patrick’s Cullyhanna of Armagh, in the All-Ireland semi-final. His business isn’t done for this year just yet, however, as a relegation semi-final against Ballycommon awaits. However, defeats either side of that to Thurles Sarsfields and Moycarkey-Borris meant that they failed to progress to the knockout stages.If Kelly has any retirement plans, he may be of a mind to suspend them given that his former Tipperary teammate Brendan Cummins is still going at 49, seven years his senior.
Yet, he’s still at it two years later at 47 years of age and all indications are that he’ll be back for a 33rd campaign in 2025, despite having recently been drafted into new Waterford manager Peter Queally’s management team. The competition is particularly unique in this day and age as it is still played on a knockout basis and Penrose was central to Carrickmore’s edgy 0-11 to 0-10 win over Dromore last Friday week, coming off the bench to great effect as they turned around a four-point deficit.
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