Star burns brighter

It’s five years since Kieran Donaghy burst on to the scene and changed the whole football landscape. He’s learned a lot in that time but he’s still bursting with enthusiasm and still relishing a Munster final with Cork

HE kind of grew up here in The Greyhound. It’s where he used work, collecting glasses for Aidan and the boys; where he was christened ‘Star’ after one of the punters linked his sporting prowess and the blue emblem on his Orlando Magic jacket together and where he got back his mojo for football as well.

There was a time Kieran Donaghy had been “fed up with the flippin’ thing”. He remembers an U16 county final for the Stacks against Beaufort when he was put in full-forward, far from the more familiar terrain of midfield.