MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Dónal Óg — Number one the loneliest number

There are times when the cliché is correct.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Dónal Óg — Number one the loneliest number

You grope around for the new and shiny but you end up with a dusty second-hand phrase because frankly, nothing else fits better.

Take one of the more seductive fall-back positions in sportswriting, when personality is matched with performance in a neat equation. Here’s the flashy forward, outgoing and gregarious. Contrast with the dour defender, grim and silent.

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