Shane O’Donnell backing his gut instincts

You’re called up by the Clare senior hurlers. You stroll into the dressing room your first night and you want to make friends. Shane O’Donnell, hat-trick hero of the 2013 All-Ireland final replay: you’ll chat to him, maybe about what he’s at in UCC.

Beware. O’Donnell says even a sketchy outline of his PhD in food science can reduce hardened defenders to silence.

“Ah, they don’t even slag me really any more,” says O’Donnell.