Eamonn Young: The messiah who led Cork football from the wilderness

Diarmuid O’Donovan charts the incredible life and times of legendary Cork football, Eamonn Young, who was born on this week a century ago

The Cork team is the team that played Carlow in the National League 1945. Eamonn Young is pictured in the front row, third from left.

Eamonn Young, arguably Cork’s greatest and most influential Gaelic Footballer, was born on August 7, 100 years ago.

By then it was already 14 years since Cork had defeated Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship.