Dealing with Donaghy one for Rochford files

Seeing as it was often described as the duel of the two basketballers, as good a place as any to start on the Aidan O’Shea-Kieran Donaghy matchup is with a line from a hoops documentary that they both loved.

In We Got Game, a delightful look back on the Irish basketball explosion of the 1980s, Tom O’Sullivan, who rivalled Liam McHale as the standout domestic player of the era, gave an insight into how the great Burgerland Neptune team won so much national silverware, often edging out their arch rivals Blue Demons who included the remarkable Jasper McElroy.

“I don’t know of any other player where we would have the game plan which would be: keep McElroy to 40 points and we’ll win the game,” said O’Sullivan. “Now, that’s a hell of a lot of scoring! But he was a machine. He could use every part of his body to get open to shoot a ball.”