Elected O’Donovan moves focus to Bandon

James O’Donovan estimates he has missed "about half" of the Bandon hurlers’ training sessions in the past couple of months.

This is not a case of apathy, injury or bad timekeeping, you understand, but the quest to win a seat on Cork County Council has meant that many an evening has been spent knocking on doors rather than with his team-mates.

Last Saturday night, he was elected as one of three Fine Gael councillors in the Bandon-Kinsale local electoral area.