CON O’CALLAGHAN MAKES it all look so easy.
The 21-year-old scored his second goal in two games to lead Dublin past Mayo today and collect another All-Ireland medal. It’s been quite the year for the UCD student.
O’Callaghan was a member of the Dublin squad that defeated Mayo in the All-Ireland final last October, while he picked up Dublin, Leinster and All-Ireland hurling titles with Cuala by the following March.
By April, O’Callaghan was toasting another success, this time All-Ireland U21 football glory with the Sky Blues who defeated Galway in Tullamore.
Despite playing no league football, he was pitched straight into Jim Gavin’s senior side for the start of the championship and kicked an incredible 12 points to claim man-of-the-match in the Leinster final victory over Kildare.
O’Callaghan scored key early goals against Tyrone and Mayo on the way to another All-Ireland. He has the Young Footballer of the Year award wrapped up since the early part of the summer, while his first All-Star will follow in November.
And he’s the second-favourite to win the Footballer of the Year, behind team-mate Stephen Cluxton.
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I love this positivity from Collins!
You can’t even beat Greece ffs
@john doe: They can barely beat Gibraltar at home.
I have nothing against this team and setup but it’s time to start concentrating on getting the grassroots and facilities up to standard i.e. concentrat on teams to come in the future.
@Stanley Marsh: To be fair, we put as many past Gibraltar as France, Netherlands and Greece did.
@Eoin McCarthy: oh wow. Another moral victory for us so. We’re as good as France.
Ffs
@Eoin McCarthy: Oh well, I take back everything I said then!!
WHOOSH!!!
@Stanley Marsh: 18 players given debuts,that’s for the future
@Larry Betts: Yes, but what kind of future in the short to medium term?
There is a bizarre scenario for us that to qualify for the play offs we need most of the teams ranked higher than us in the Nations league to qualify automatically through these qualifying groups. One of those teams is The Netherlands. So technically if they beat us it improves our chance of getting a play off.
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: whatever happened to just the top 2 qualifying.
What on earth is Kenny putting in the Irl teams drinking water ?
The latest extraordinary uttering has Collins saying that they can beat France.”Incredible”.
Judging by his performance on Monday,Collins would have difficulty getting in the Gibraltar side.
Kenny must be shown the door now. His tactical awareness is non existent,and leads his team up blind alleys.
Yes delusion is the name of the game by all at the
F A I.
Headless chickens come to mind.
Marc
@marc anders: what are you talking about? On one hand you are saying that the players shouldn’t have belief in themselves to get the best out of themselves and on the other hand you’re saying Collins wouldn’t get on the Gibraltar team.. which obviously isn’t even remotely true!
April fools day is long gone. Please be a great player that you are. Don’t talk like that Please. Chance came and went
Oh Holy mother…..
#positivity #delusional
they should have asked him before he got steamed up.
Technical yes we can
Realistically we won’t
It’s that easy sum up Irelands chances.
We shouldn’t be trying to “Nick” a result from anyone
Stop it. Please.