Hard work pays off as Colm O’Driscoll making most of Cork opportunity

If Colm O’Driscoll is sore he didn’t make the top grade quicker than last year, he doesn’t show it. When Conor Counihan was in charge of Cork, it wasn’t that his face didn’t fit: it was his body.

“I didn’t get a lot of a look in, to be honest,” he says of his All-Ireland U21 winning year of 2009 and the few seasons that followed.

“It was a different management. They had a lot of very, very good players at their disposal.