Fachtna O'Donovan

Fachtna O'Donovan, whose full name was Michael Fachtna O'Donovan, was an Irish Gaelic footballer born in 1921 in Rosscarbery, County Cork, who died in Skibbereen on 17 October 1995. He first came to notice with Carbery Rangers, with whom he won Southwest Junior Championship titles, and he won a Munster Minor Championship with the Cork minors in 1939 before moving to Clonakilty, a club that took six county senior titles in ten years. He joined the Cork senior team in 1943, the year Cork won the Munster title for the first time in fifteen years, and lined out at midfield when Cork beat Cavan in the 1945 All-Ireland final. He added a third Munster title in 1949, his last year with the team, and a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 1948.