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Published 16:45 26 Jan 2018 GMT
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"My team [Erin's Own] is mainly a hurling team and they were playing the county quarter final on the Saturday and then out playing county championship, in the football, on the Monday night. "I'd been having a few pints, for a few days, down in West Cork. Friday night and probably Saturday and the Saturday night as well. I got a text off one of the lads when I was on the way back up to Cork, on the Monday, saying they were short a few numbers and asking if I'd fall in. He said they wouldn't bring me on unless they were really stuck. "I went on the bench and go on for the last five minutes. Then we got to the quarter final and I came on the last five minutes, and did alright. I came on again in the semi but it went to a replay and I started that. I started the county final too but we lost that, unfortunately. It was great craic though."O'Leary downplays his contribution to getting Erin's Own to the final - he scored an extra-time goal in that last four encounter of the Junior A championship, against Kilmacabea, before helping himself to 0-3 in the replay win. He found the net in the JAFC final against Knocknagree but his team lost out 2-19 to 2-10 at Pairc Ui Rinn. To O'Leary, getting back involved and playing with some of his old friends was half of the fun. "There were or three lads may age [34] who are still playing and who I would have played with when I was a kid," he said, "so it was good to get back and play with them again." 2018 will see O'Leary keep up the GAA, only his focus is on getting back into the Erin's Own hurling team. The challenge will be seeing if he still possesses some of the skills that saw him win an All-Ireland at the age of 18. Keeping those kilos off is the added bonus.
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