Book honours Kerry visionary

ONE of the greatest Kerrymen of all time is how Pat O’Shea describes Dr Eamonn O’Sullivan, a true visionary in the field of sport and medicine, who shares with Mick O’Dwyer the distinction of training eight winning All-Ireland teams — except that he achieved it over a period of 38 years!

O’Shea makes the comment in Weeshie Fogarty’s book, “Dr Eamonn O’Sullivan — A Man Before His Time,” launched in Killarney last night, saying he was a “hugely iconic figure”.

“A kind of mythical figure to our younger generation, Dr Eamonn was a man who came and did something unbelievably extraordinary, with the successes he had and all his achievements,’’ he wrote.