‘I was told I’d be lucky to walk again but those day are behind me’

He may be carrying 12 pins and two plates in his leg but Cork speed merchant Luke O’Farrell has been making light of the injury which almost ended his career.

The free-scoring full-forward broke his ankle in a club game four years ago but shrugged off what was, initially, a very gloomy diagnosis.

“I was told I’d be lucky to walk again but those days are long behind me. I feel faster and stronger now and that’s just part of my history.