The Double 30 years on - Part 2: Stopping Colm O'Rourke

Niall Cahalane: 'My whole attitude that day was I really didn't care if I hadn't handled that ball once, once O'Rourke didn't put the ball over the bar'
The Double 30 years on - Part 2: Stopping Colm O'Rourke

Cork GAA legend, Niall Cahalane is pictured with his sons Damien and Conor along with organisers of a fundraiser for Marymount Hospice to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Cork winning The Double. To donate text Marymount to 50300. Picture: Brian Lougheed

In part 2 on our look back at Cork's 1990 All-Ireland SFC win over Meath the focus turns to stopping the Royal County's dangerman - Colm O'Rourke.

In this section, Cork defender Niall Cahalane says he remembers very little about what was said at the half-time break: "I was in my own world," he recalled, as he focused on keeping a handle on the stat attacker.

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