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Published 14:35 30 Sept 2017 BST
Updated 15:30 30 Sept 2017 BST
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He was ready for action, ready to go.
That was when the shit hit the fan. A messer who we can only assume was the Castleknock free-taker, as a result of his departure from the rest of the squad, who were completing their warm-up press-ups, was getting into the free-taking groove, attempting to send a few shots over the black spot.
His eyes were obviously bigger than his foot, as a long-ranger dropped just short of the goals, but it wasn't him who bore the brunt of it, no, it was the poor goalkeeper Connolly who was clocked on the head by the O'Neills size 5.
The Castleknock netminder was sent to tumbling to the ground by the shock of it, and the hawk-eyed Dean Rock caught it all on camera.
https://twitter.com/NiallMcintyre/status/914110642923216897
You can only imagine the choice words Connolly had in store for the offender, because Jesus them gaelic footballs are rock solid, and that must have hurt.
His evening didn't get much better, however, as he had to face an untouchable Paul Mannion, who nearly bore a hole in the Parnell Park nets such was the ferocity of his wonder goal culminating rasper of a shot past Connolly.
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