O’Neill ready to fight his corner

PREVIEW: Cork v Galway

After five years in UCC he found himself out in the jobs market with a Degree in Process and Chemical Engineering, and a Masters in Financial Economics to his name.

If securing those had been difficult, the next step of gaining employment didn’t look any easier. Yet in January he nailed down a job working in the innovation centre in the De Puy plant in Ringaskiddy. He’s been there three and a half months and doesn’t underestimate his good fortune. Plenty of his friends have decamped to Vancouver and Australia recently in search of work, robbing Bishopstown of fine GAA talents.