Dalton front and centre again as Fr O’Neill’s eye All-Ireland

Declan Dalton has become so adept at finding the net that it seems preposterous now to think it was his job to guard it through most of his teens.

He stood between the sticks for Fr O’Neill’s through to U14s, and for half-a-dozen years more with various county sides, before John Meyler took a notion and pencilled him in up front for the Cork U21s in a challenge match.