John O’Donovan won’t be attending any more birthday parties for the next while.
O’Donovan recently accepted an invitation after Cork City’s home game against Kerry to attend supporter Nicholas’ 13th birthday, which involved a game of football at the complex of the pair’s local GAA club in Clonakilty.
But for the foreseeable future, it is strictly business insists the defender as City’s season’s title charge gathers pace.
But another reason for the hard stance is that he just hasn’t been invited to a party since.
“No nothing recently anyway, that was the last one, so we’ll stay away from birthday parties for a while,” he laughs.
“No, no more invites yet. Ah Nicholas there, he gave me the invite after the game, and it was in Clon so that’s where I’m from so I said I would go up to him for 10 minutes and play with all the lads, so they were happy out.”
It’s first versus second in the First Division tonight as City travel to Treaty United (kick-off is at 7:45pm) which sees the league’s only remaining unbeaten sides clash at Markets Field.
“It’s a brilliant start,” continues O’Donovan.
“Every game we go into has been tough so we’re not taking anything easy. Every win that we get we just look forward to the next game, we just keep pushing.
“We’re expecting a tough game (against Treaty). It’s a tough place to go. We’re just looking forward to the test hopefully we will come out on top of that.
“As Tim says, every game that we win is just three points and we want to keep the points going clear.
“We just need to keep up that winning momentum. That’s all it is, just get our win and keep going then.”
City will start their latest Munster derby three points clear of United, who have a game in hand after their match with Longford
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