O’Grady stays on high alert

HE’S principal of Scoil Mhuire, North Mon secondary school in Cork, he also happens to be manager of the Cork senior hurling team, but Donal O’Grady could be a Jesuit.

Certainly he has the philosophy: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

A few days to go to this Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final against Wexford, not once since the Munster final win over Waterford six weeks earlier has O’Grady had his full squad together for training. In the unlikely event that it would happen in any other county (it wouldn’t), almost any other manager would be up in arms, crying his frustration from the rooftops. Not O’Grady.