Mullahoran ace O'Reilly looks set to hang up his boots

Paul Fitzpatrick Mullahoran attacker Eddie O'Reilly could have played his last game for the Dreadnoughts, The Anglo-Celt can reveal. The popular 33-year-old former county player picked up his third Cavan SFC medal last month and admitted this week that he "probably won't" return next season. O'Reilly is based in Dublin and after 15 years on the Mullahoran senior team, he suggested that he may not commit for another season with the champions. "I think that will be it for me now, I've had a great innings," said O'Reilly. "I've had some good days and some bad days. To win three Senior Championships, I think that's enough for me. Possibly if I was still living around home I would play on for a few years but I'm at a different stage of my life now, possibly don't have the hunger that I used to have for the game. I was labouring on the field a bit the last two years, it was in my head and if you don't have the hunger for it, it's very hard to come back again and again. "There'll be a big void to fill, there's no doubt about it. I thought of playing with some club in Dublin but it's not the same going out playing with some Gaelic football club in Dublin, it's not Mullahoran. At the end of the day, where you come from is special." O'Reilly insisted that Mullahoran's prospects of further success are very positive. "We believe, and truly believe, every year that we have a chance of winning a Senior Championship. It doesn't happen every year but we have that belief, we have that history, and I think winning this championship will fuel us for the next seven or eight years, provided those young lads stay around and we get three or four other young lads coming in over the next two to three years," he said. "It'll be a transition when the more experienced players move on but if they show the same hunger and passion and wear that jersey with the same pride, I think Mullahoran are going to be there or thereabouts. I think the future is bright for Mullahoran."