Pearse O’Neill: Veteran, 41, still answering the Aghada call

Pearse O’Neill plays down his service. One of the club’s most famous sons Conor Counihan, he recalls, lined out in the green and white up until his mid-40s.

Pearse O'Neill won an All-Ireland with Cork in 2010 and is still going strong with Aghada. Picture: Oliver McVeigh

Eleven years after winning an All-Ireland medal and Pearse O’Neill is still a man in demand.

Just shy of his 42nd birthday on December 1, he hopes to assist Aghada’s hurlers to avoid the drop in Saturday’s Cork Premier intermediate relegation play-off against Watergrasshill.