Comment: Seán O’Donoghue and Alan Connolly silence their doubters

Bar the colour of their shirt and county of their birth, common ground should not exist between O’Donoghue and Connolly.

Seán O'Donoghue celebrates with his parents Paddy and Yvonne. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile.

Muted and maligned. Magic and bloody-mindedness. Distant relations on the field, points proven in perfect tandem.

Bar the colour of their shirt and county of their birth, common ground should not exist between Seán O’Donoghue and Alan Connolly. One is paid a wage for producing and pilfering green flags, the other preventing them. Different job descriptions, different people. O’Donoghue is a father, Connolly a TikToker.