DROGHEDA UNITED’S GARY O’Neill made a goalscoring return to football last night.
The 31-year-old striker came off the bench at half-time in the 5-1 friendly win over Leinster Senior League outfit Glebe North and received a warm reception from those present at Market Green before marking his comeback with a goal.
On 67 minutes, O’Neill controlled the ball with his chest and fired a dipping volley past the Glebe goalkeeper Alan O’Connor from 30 yards.
It was his first appearance for Drogs since being diagnosed with testicular cancer back in September and also Robbie Horgan’s managerial debut for the Louth club.
Having come through surgery successfully, it was announced earlier this month that O’Neill had re-signed with the Airtricity League Premier Division side as a player-coach for the upcoming season.
Twitter celebrated his return last night:
An article like this is a troll magnet
I’ve been waiting for Glen for half an hour.
Kearney displaying typical ‘rugger’ humour there… off for a good aul knees up and a pint of heino. D*cks.
How is that typical ‘rugger’ humour? He made a valid observation (the jersey is swimming on him), and made a joke about it.
AIdeen if they were in person he would have kicked sand over him.. like McBain making fun of the ‘puny’ men.
Not so boring now.
Slow day at the office eh zzzzzzz
What used journalists actually do in the days before they could copy very boring stories straight off of twitter?
Horan needs to bulk,up steroids would help,ask any pro rugby player,IF kearney was a man ,he,d have knocked that steroid monkey out cold.
Only real men have ‘Guns’.