Rescue point was ‘hit and hope’, admits O’Donovan

He will go down in the All-Ireland hurling final annals alongside Joe Canning but, in all honesty, Domhnall O’Donovan didn’t know much about his point that was heard all around the hurling world.

While Canning displayed his usual poise to stroke over the free that sent last year’s final to a replay, corner-back O’Donovan admitted his was more a “hit and hope” effort.

And the corner-back has no apologies to make for that because, unlike Galway’s gifted goalsmith Canning, O’Donovan is a corner-back who had never scored in the Championship before.