O’Driscoll performs a magical display of camogie

MOMENTS after yesterday’s All-Ireland camogie final at Croke Park, hat-trick Cork hero Fiona O’Driscoll is bounding along in front of the Rebel fans in the Hogan Stand, clenched triumphant fist aloft, saluting friends, family, the red-and-white hordes.

“I had been thinking of giving it up earlier this year”, she revealed, “but I’m glad I didn’t now.”

So were those same fans, because on the biggest day of the camogie calendar, the immensely-talented Fr. O’Neill’s veteran put on an exhibition. 3-2 to her credit at the finish, every score more crucial than the one before, and more spectacular. Her third goal, Cork’s fourth, and the one that really killed off this game, was the most incredible of all a magical catch of a dropping high ball, turn, and a shot off in the most confined space.