Eoin’s goals

Eoin Cadogan has bounced between hurling, football and controversy this year, but at season’s end, he’s where he wants to be – whatever the code. The Douglas man spoke to Tony Leen

AN HOUR after hearing Eoin Cadogan explain his metamorphosis from teenage bench-warmer to All-Ireland finalist we find ourselves on the top pitch in his Douglas GAA club watching the new generation of 13-year-old tearaways. Identifying the next Cadogan would be some job, if the man himself is to be believed.

“Seriously, I was hopeless,” he protests. “I was interested but I could never get my game, right up to when I was 15 or 16; I was one of the fellas kicking the ball up and down the sideline when it was raining, trying to keep warm. I didn’t just go down and say ‘I’ll start playing hurling and football and see how it goes’. I’m a driven enough kind of character, as laid-back as I might seem.”