Donie O'Donovan

Donie O'Donovan, born Daniel Joseph O'Donovan on 31 January 1926 and dead on 28 May 1999, was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player from Cork. He was born on the Old Youghal Road in Dillon's Cross into a family with a strong sporting and Irish republican background, was a nephew of the Cork IRA officer Dan Sandow O'Donovan, and followed his father and grandfather into carpentry. He played football with his local club St. Nicholas' and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1948 until 1955, winning Munster Senior Football Championships in 1949 and 1952 and the 1951-52 National Football League. With St. Nicholas' he won Cork Senior Football Championships in 1954, 1965 and 1966 and the 1966 Munster club title, and with Glen Rovers he also won six Cork Senior Hurling Championships between 1944 and 1954. As a manager he led Cork to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1973 and to Munster titles in 1966, 1967, 1973 and 1974, and he is credited with the Railway Cup with Munster in 1972. He married the Cork camogie player Sheila Cahill, and their eldest son Diarmuid became a sports columnist.