Niall Kelly was told to avoid contact sport for up to 12 months and feared he'd played his last game for Errigal Ciaran
Ahead of one of the biggest days in his footballing career, Niall Kelly admits he feared the worst when he suffered what he called a “brutal injury” in an All-County League game last year.
The doctors warned Kelly that he wasn’t to play contact sport for up to 12 months and the 28-year-old school teacher wondered if he’d make a comeback at all. “I had a brutal injury, a dislocation of my sternal vascular. My collarbone dislocated from my sternum,” stated Kelly. “I was in the Royal for five nights to get emergency surgery, and then I had to get the shoulder reconstructed too.
McGinley himself suffered a broken neck in the 2003 All-Ireland final following a collision with Armagh’s Tony McEntee. “It was probably in the middle of the League this year, I played a reserve game, and then Enda had planned a bit of a return for me, so maybe got a couple of minutes to the reserves and built up that way, because my fitness was obviously a wee bit low at that stage.
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