Kieran ready to do Star turn if called into battle

HIS head insists he doesn’t have a hope of featuring against Dublin but his heart tells Kieran Donaghy that he will answer the call if Jack O’Connor turns to him with five minutes to go.

That’s Donaghy. As he says himself, the eternal optimist.

The latest prognosis is encouraging. The bone in Donaghy’s foot has healed well since Johnny McKenna, from Dublin’s Sports Surgery Clinic, performed the operation but there is still fluid gathering in the area which is causing pain when weight is placed on it.