O’Dwyer still fashioning a legend in sport’s fast lane

MICK O’DWYER however briefly, showed every one of his legendary 75 years in Aughrim on Saturday as the wind whipped at the snowy hair and the seamed face that had just watched Armagh knock his Wicklow charges out of the championship.

It was a hard-fought replay. It was ironic that the difference between the sides in the end was the work of a burly ‘glic’ forward cut from exactly the same cloth as that which made O’Dwyer a legend in his prime. Jamie Clarke broke through for the brace of goals that represented the winning margin in the end.

They were the kind of goals O’Dwyer scored when Kerry needed them.