Road to recovery doesn’t always run smoothly

A little under two years ago, in these pages, Brian Turnbull spoke about the various stages of grief, from denial to anger to acceptance.

He didn’t quite realise he was doing so but the young Douglas forward’s description of the impact of his cruciate knee ligament injury amounted to a textbook example of coping with grief.

The agonising injury occurred just days after shooting 1-7 for Cork in the 2017 All-Ireland minor final, in club football training, of all places.