Like father, like son, Ambrose a real battler

DR CROKES star Ambrose O’Donovan has described how he was back playing competitive football less than four weeks after badly damaging his back in a car crash.

O’Donovan, son of Kerry great Ambrose, sustained severe tissue damage and damaged vertebrae when he was involved in the accident while travelling home from college in Limerick to Killarney on Friday, October 29.

O’Donovan, 27, had to be cut out of his vehicle and spent five days in the trauma unit of Limerick Regional Hospital. But, on November 21, just 23 days after the smash, the teak-tough midfielder appeared as a substitute for the Kerry champions against Aherlow in the AIB Munster Club SFC semi-final.