Colm O’Neill: ‘You just have to think of the bigger days’

The Big Interview: Seven years on from making his debut for Cork, Colm O’Neill is set for another first start tomorrow when he lines out against Kerry in Killarney. After his much-documented hat-trick of cruciate injuries, no player has embodied the virtue of patience more than the Ballyclough clubman but as O’Neill explains, the demands of modern Gaelic football call for even more fortitude from an inside forward

If I’m picked, it’ll be my first start in Killarney.”

Colm O’Neill has had to explain that one to people. Most find it perplexing that he’s yet to begin a championship game there. But then it suddenly dawns on them. Cruciates.