High-flying Cadogans staying grounded

You can’t help thinking Eoin Cadogan is playing a blinder as the big brother when he perceives his younger sibling Alan and the rest of the Cork U21 footballers are being hyped up ahead of Saturday’s All-Ireland U21FC semi-final.

But it’s not that he worries about them. He does his duty and reminds the other dual player in the Douglas family of the potential pitfalls, but he describes Alan as being “a bit more straight-laced and screwed on for his game than me”.

Arguably the find of the senior hurlers’ league campaign, Cadogan points to the times when he brought Alan along to ball alleys to train with him, Dónal Óg Cusack and John Gardiner. “He has been in that type of environment and I think it is after serving him well to be around those types of guys.”