At 21 he still couldn’t break onto the club’s senior starting line-up — in fact he’d play senior championship for Kilkenny before he’d play it with his club

YOU could call it one of the great White Coat scenarios in all of sport.

HE’S a granddad now, as well as a Senator, but as he enters his 60th year on the planet, Eamonn Coghlan is showing no signs of slowing down.

SENATOR Eamonn Coghlan believes his fellow world champion gold medallist Sonia O’Sullivan has got it badly wrong by insisting only A standard athletes will be sent to the London Olympics.