How Kieran Donaghy still makes primitive look beautiful

Kieran Donaghy looked like he went to sleep in Dunboyne on Saturday night and woke up in Croke Park back in 2006, such was the terror he was inflicting on that Galway full-back line in the first half.

How Kieran Donaghy still makes primitive look beautiful

About two years ago, he was preparing for an imminent retirement from Kerry football when he took on a project to try to bring Superleague basketball back to the town of Tralee. There were three or four different small clubs all fishing out of the same small pool of players and none of them had a senior outlet competing in the top flight of Irish basketball. Somehow, Donaghy managed to pull these warring basketball factions all under the one umbrella to form a new Superleague club in the town.

This would be the broad equivalent of Donald Trump bringing peace to the Middle East.

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