Eoin Cadogan: Beating the system? I loved being part of the system

Time waits for none of us and while I will always have the drive to succeed, I didn’t want to fall out of love with something that gave me great memories

Dejected brothers Eoin, left, and Alan Cadogan of Cork after losing the 2021 All-Ireland final to Limerick. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

“One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished."

- Paulo Coelho