O’Shaughnessy’s bright outlook

ANDREW O’SHAUGHNESSY isn’t too keen on dwelling on the latter end of 2009. And who could blame him. Twelve months ago he was one of the 12 Limerick hurlers sensationally dropped from the county panel with manager Justin McCarthy citing commitment and discipline issues as the chief reasons behind the axing.

For a player who has never drank or smoked, it came as a especially hard blow, and one that he is still waiting to be explained away.

But within weeks that bombshell was eclipsed. In November, doctors informed Shaughnessy that he was suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic and sometimes disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system.