Mark Keane: ‘There was a training session in Castlelyons. I didn’t show up. My head was scrambled’

The Mitchelstown man had an pro sport itch to scratch that he couldn't quieten, but will be play in Cork red again? You better believe it, he says. The AFL talent spoke to Maurice Brosnan

CODE-BREAKER: Mark Keane of the Crows in action. Pic: Russell Freeman, Getty Images

Mark Keane became used to his world being turned upside down. Annually. Dramatically. He has five steady years of it ever since he first boarded a plane and set off to Melbourne for an AFL trial.

In the winter of 2018, the Mitchelstown man joined Collingwood. Covid came and he returned to deliver a famous Cork-Kerry goal two years later. His heart was split between profession and passion. In 2022, he departed the club despite having one year left on his contract.