Fri. Oct 4th, 2024

Limerick Football goalkeeper Donal O’Sullivan announces inter-county retirement

Jimmy Lee will have to do without the Monaleen shot stopper who had been playing at senior level since 2013.

Limerick GAA have announced the decision that Donal O’Sullivan has called time on his inter-county football career on Thursday evening.

He was a key component in Limerick reaching the Munster SFC Final in 2022, the county’s first in 12 years.

O’Sullivan had been Limerick football captain since 2018 before being joined in a co-captaining role by Newcastlewest’s Iain Corbett.

There were times when O’Sullivan was even mentioned as one of the best football keepers in Munster.

The goalkeeper, who works as a doctor, was part of the team’s meteoric rise in the Allianz Football League too as the team, then managed by Billy Lee, went from Divisions 4 to 2 in the space of three years.

He also won the McGrath Cup in 2020, the pre-season competition for Munster football inter county teams.

“Donal has been a fantastic servant to Limerick GAA and has been a role model to so many present and upcoming Limerick footballs,” the county football team’s chairman Wayne Fitzgerald said.

“We wish him well in his retirement and thank him for all the wonderful memories he has given to so many Limerick football fans down through the years.”

The Treaty will begin the new inter-county season without O’Sullivan in Division 3 of the Allianz Football League, which will commence at the end of January 2024.

ByMatthew Hurley

Matthew Hurley is Deputy Podcast Editor for the Limerick Voice. Podcasting has been a passion of his since he started his own Gaelic Statsman Podcast in December 2020. The podcast has amassed ninety-six episodes to date, with the podcast on Spotify, YouTube and other podcasting platforms. In 2022, Matthew joined the Southern Star as a Junior Sports Reporter and has been a contributor to the successful Star Sport Podcast, which has been shortlisted for the Best Use of Digital category in the Local Ireland Media Awards 2023. In 2019, he started the social media account Gaelic Statsman, an account that does stats on Gaelic Games’ matches. Journalists from RTÉ, Joe.ie and Off the Ball have used the stats.