Whenever O’Connor calls time on his Clare career, the subsequent Championship campaign will be the first since 1948 that no footballer that played with or under O’Dwyer will feature.
A fascinating statistic emerged recently on Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson that set the mind racing in a GAA context.
So, when considering such longevity from a GAA perspective, there really was only one place to start: Mick O’Dwyer. John Dowling and Paudie Sheehy were the longest-serving Kerry players on duty that day, having first appeared for the county senior team in 1951, but by 1959 Moyvane’s Jim Brosnan, who made his debut in the 1949 Munster Championship defeat to Clare, had come back into the team.
And so the last man standing is Cathal O’Connor, the only surviving Clare player from the sole season that the Kerryman spent with the Banner in 2013. “When I got a call from him I wasn’t really going to turn it down, especially when I thought Clare looked like they were on the up.” “I just had a perception that that hunger or that desire might have waned over the years but that’s one thing that struck me - it never did.
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