Veteran Dan still living the dream after ignoring hint to quit

ANYONE who saw the current Newtownshandrum side in its infancy in the early 1990’s, when they were accumulating North Cork and county underage titles with consummate ease, knew for certain that this was a side destined for greatness.

Few, perhaps, would have envisaged them going as far as they have, an All-Ireland club final tomorrow in Croke Park, but the potential in those youngsters was glaringly obvious.

Through that same period however, the adult grade wasn’t going quite so swimmingly. Dan O’Riordan, grizzly full-forward and elder statesman of the current squad, remembers it well.