More than his talent, Colin Healy bowed out of football a Cork City hero

Who knows how much money he would have made, how many caps he’d have earned, how many honours he’d have won, had Colin Healy not had his leg badly broken by an awful tackle when he was just 23. 

For so long a hard-luck story, by the end of his career nobody felt sorry for him anymore, and he bowed out of football a Cork City hero, getting the perfect send-off in last year’s FAI Cup final.

Along the way, the lessons he learned might yet make him an integral part of City’s future