Second on-court act paying off in the life of Brunell’s O’Reilly

It was Mark Foley, Tim O’Halloran’s assistant, who threw the the idea there first.

Singleton’s SuperValu Brunell’s senior team had been hollowed out over the off-season. Players had retired, moved to Australia, switched clubs and, in the case of their overseas contingent, just moved on. They were desperate for new blood, and that was when Foley thought about Sinead O’Reilly.