Shane O'Donnell's concussion nightmare: 'I was resigned to never playing hurling again'

A concussion suffered at trained ruled Clare star Shane O’Donnell out for the entire championship. The frightening ill-effects of the incident also left him questioning if he would ever return to the game he loved

SCARY SPELL: Shane O’Donnell still has no recollection of the day in early June when he suffered a concussion at Clare training which ruled him out for the whole championship. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Shane O’Donnell graduated from UCC last Sunday. Eight years of studying in Cork culminated with O’Donnell donning the full doctoral regalia set after completing his PhD in microbiology, microbiomes specifically. He is Dr Shane O’Donnell now.

“Yeah,” he says with a smile, “I’ll have to start putting it in all my letters from now on.”