Shock as Fitzgibbon Cup legend dies

Tributes were paid last night to one of the greatest ever Fitzgibbon Cup hurlers, who died unexpectedly yesterday.

Paul O’Connor, 49, from Cork, was found dead in a house in city’s Highfield area. Gardaí described the death as a personal tragedy.

His lifelong friend and Na Piarsaigh clubmate, Tony O’Sullivan, said people were shattered.