Ronayne: Door always open for O'Shea

TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship Semi-Final, Croke Park, Dublin 15/8/2021 Meath vs Cork Meath’s Vikki Wall and Erika O’Shea of Cork Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

CORK football manager Shane Ronayne admitted the loss of teenage All-Star Erika O’Shea to Aussie Rules this summer is “disappointing” but said “the door is always open to her to return.

“It’s disappointing but we didn’t stand in her way. Our only concern for Erika was her education,” he said. “She’s only 19, just done her first year in college. Everyone else (from Ireland in AFLW) had a degree behind them apart from (Tipperary’s) Orla O’Dwyer who is an Australian citizen, which helps her to do a course over there.