When Clare played Wexford in last year’s Championship, the best Shane O’Donnell could manage was to listen to it on the car radio.
It’s a year ago this month since he suffered a serious concussion at training which trivialised the matter of whether he could get back on the field again or not.
O’Donnell just wanted a functioning brain that would allow him to carry out the basic day to day things that we largely take for granted. His inability to do even that much meant that he had written off his hurling career in his own mind and, at that stage, he wasn’t greatly troubled by the prospect of not togging out again.
