Colin O’Riordan: ‘I’m the proudest Tipperary man in Australia’

Rising AFL star Colin O’Riordan admits that Tipperary’s stunning Munster SFC semi-final victory over Cork has fuelled his desire to represent his county again.

O’Riordan revealed how he felt like the “proudest Irishman in Sydney” when he woke at 4am on Monday morning Down Under to discover that Tipp had overcome Cork in senior championship football for the first time in 72 years.

O’Riordan, forging a new life for himself as a professional with the Sydney Swans, couldn’t get back to sleep as his mobile phone buzzed with messages of goodwill following those seismic events in Thurles.