Sarah O’Donovan: Routinely tackling the impossible

Mark Pollock, Jamie Wall and Louise O’Hara are just some of the role models that have inspired Sarah O’Donovan as the 31-year-old pursues a return to the top tier of camogie with a different county and a team made up largely of players 10 years her junior.

It doesn’t take long chatting to O’Donovan to realise she is an open door to challenges.

An All-Ireland winner at senior, junior and minor level with Cork, she was captain of the Ireland team that competed in the European U19 soccer championships in 2002. She holds a law degree and covered All-Ireland finals in all the Gaelic games categories during a previous incarnation as a sports journalist.