Flor eyes dream end to marathon season

FLOR O’Driscoll was due to be in Dublin on Monday, running his first marathon. A couple of weeks ago he cancelled. It was not quite a last-minute emergency but something came up, unexpected but welcome — oh, so very welcome.

In tandem with the training he was doing for that Dublin City Marathon, O’Driscoll was also training Ilen Rovers senior football team, his Ilen Rovers, the team he began playing over 20 years ago.

Six years ago he won a junior A county title with Ilen, four years ago they went on to win the intermediate.