Motive of our swinging detective becomes clear

OUT ON a hurling field temporarily set up for a hot afternoon of competition in New Jersey recently, the big NYPD detective who had offered to stand in goal for us explained why he was better than we’d expected.

Bronx-born Patrick Donohue Jr was 17 in 1990 when he became the first overseas participant at that summer’s Poc Fada in Co. Louth.

He took part on the same day then Cork goalkeeper and long poc king Ger Cunningham won the last of his seven titles.