Rebel star O’Connor makes most of second chance

WITHIN a week of Henry Shefflin winning his seventh All-Ireland senior hurling medal, Mary O’Connor matched that feat with the Cork camogie team, having won her first back in 1997 when teams were 12-a-side.

Unlike the Kilkenny star, she is also an accomplished footballer and captains the Cork team which defends its TG4 All-Ireland title against Dublin in Croke Park next Sunday after making it four-in-a-row 12 months ago.

However, as rewarding as these achievements are, the real satisfaction for the Camogie Association’s National Director of Development is that she came back from a career-threatening injury two years ago.