Ryan O’Dwyer’s painful road to recovery: ‘I was a horrible person’

Ryan O’Dwyer has lost his sense of smell and is a little more forgetful than he once was, the consequences of being knocked unconscious almost 12 months ago to the day.

A brain injury, he concludes, is different for everyone and as if to underline that fact the experienced Dublin hurler points to a rare and curious positive about his own case.

“I actually eat salmon now whereas I didn’t eat salmon before,” the Tipperary native revealed. “If you gave me fish before, I would have said, ‘no, horrible’. So my taste has probably been affected too but, look, I eat anything anyway.”