The Big Interview with Donie O’Sullivan: Memories and friends for life

Tonight, Kerry’s first All-Star will be inducted into the Munster Council Hall of Fame. Donie O’Sullivan could have played with Joe Namath and the NY Jets but he has no regrets about returning to Kerry because of all the opponents as well as teammates he’d befriend in older age.

He knows: the name hasn’t echoed through the generations the way old comrades like O’Connell and O’Dwyer have. Just as he barely knows any current Kerry player personally since Johnny Buckley opted out, he suspects none of Peter Keane’s charges up to possibly this week would even have known of him, a state of affairs that would have hardly perturbed his modest nature. Had he been one that craved the limelight then maybe he would have taken up the offer to play with the New York Jets all those years ago.