Ciarán McManus played 159 League and Championship games for Offaly over the course of a 16-year career.
Outside of that, there was a smattering of O’Byrne Cup games, any amount of challenge matches - and then there was a solitary appearance in the Tommy Murphy Cup in 2007 that he still reflects on now with a degree of embarrassment.
Offaly had reached the Leinster final the year before and were swamped by Dublin in the closing minutes having had a man sent off, but they had a reasonable team and prospects of development.
