Walsh knows strains of being the boy wonder

It is a safe assumption that Walter Walsh and Shane O’Donnell will never stand side by side in any identity parade.

With six inches in height and three stones in weight setting them apart, hurling’s prodigious young forwards couldn’t be more different physically.

History will forever pair them off, however, as the little known players who burst into the national consciousness with their respective efforts in consecutive All-Ireland final replays.