Fiona O'Driscoll forever a key cog in Cork's camogie chain

O’Driscoll has been attending the concluding day of the camogie championship since 1986. She went first as a spectator, then a player, then a leading player, then as a coach, back to a spectator, and now back on the sideline.

Cork's Fiona O'Driscoll and Olivia Brodrick of Galway. Picture: ©INPHO/Lorraine O'Sullivan

Ger Manley was helping Fiona O’Driscoll sift through the wreckage of her destroyed bike shop when the conversation went sideways.

The conversation went to camogie. Ger Manley was the new Cork manager. One of the first teams he had ever coached was the Fr O’Neill’s senior camogie side back in 2001. A team O’Driscoll had been the central cog of.