Cork basketball is still reeling from the passing at the weekend of one of its most popular and respected figures, Martin Aherne, coach of the 2003 Neptune team that delivered the illustrious club the most recent of its 11 Superleague titles.

Seeing as it was often described as the duel of the two basketballers, as good a place as any to start on the Aidan O’Shea-Kieran Donaghy matchup is with a line from a hoops documentary that they both loved.