Twitter reacts to Donal Óg's emotional Casillas lament

By Peter O’ Dwyer

Much like Donal Óg, Iker Casillas has been at the summit of the goalkeeping fraternity for over a decade; producing awe-inspiring saves from impossible angles, at crucial times.

With the Corkman now retired from inter-county hurling and the Spaniard looking likely to follow suit in taking his bow from the international game, the Cloyne man featured in a sorrowful and empathetic lament of Casillas’ current travails on RTÉ earlier.

Here’s how Twitter saw it:

Donal Og Cusack's piece on Iker Casillas was class. Sad to see the way the greatest goalkeeper in the modern era is struggling #SanIker

— Pádraig Murphy (@PodgeMurphy95) June 23, 2014

Donal og cusack with a lovely piece on iker casillas on #rteworldcup there. Summed up the existence of a keeper excellently

— Rondeco (@rondeco12) June 23, 2014

Largely well received, it seems it’s a topic that Cusack has had in his mind for quite some time given this Irish Examiner piece he penned at the end of May.

To watch the tribute clickhere.