Healy admits that this may be his last season of LOI football

Cork City midfielder Colin Healy is most certainly one of the go to guys in the City dressing room for advice for the younger players, given the career as a footballer he has had to date.

As a player who has played for Ireland, with thirteen senior international caps to his name, along with playing spells at clubs such a Glasgow Celtic and Sunderland, the Ballincollig native has quite the impressive and experienced CV.

There is no time like the present though they say and for Healy, that means being apart of the squad which is focusing fully on their Premier Division clash away to Longford Town on Sunday afternoon, with a victory setting up what will be the game of the season so far against Dundalk at Turners Cross the following weekend.

Speaking to the assembled media at the club’s weekly press conference out in Bishopstown ahead of the Longford game, Healy said: “The Longford game is going to be a hard game, every game in this division is hard.  We just have to make sure we are at it and make sure we are right.  Hopefully we can go there and collect all three points, but it will be a tough game.

“We have to focus on Longford, we take things one game at a time and you cannot be looking down the road because that just doesn’t work. All of our training sessions this week have been geared towards Longford and come next Monday, we will start focusing on the Dundalk game.”

Healy has been an incredible servant to Cork City Football Club in a playing capacity. As one of the more experienced heads in the City dressing room, he is a good port of call for advice for some of the younger players in the squad. At this stage of his career, he is beginning to plan for life after being a player and the prospect of being a football coach appeals to him. When quizzed about would this be his last season or now, he said: “I don’t know yet, but I’d say it probably could be. I have done my coaching badges and long term I would like to go into coaching.

“I would love to pass on the knowledge that I have got from all the managers that I have worked under and the players that I have played with, onto the younger kids again.

“Since I have come back to Cork City, the club has been deeply very good to me. This is probably the club where I played my best football, so come the end of the season I will have a more clearer idea of what the future holds for me.”

Before he can think about his long term future, Healy will be knuckling down with the City squad and concentrating on what will be a massive two weeks for the club, culminating of course with what will be a cracker of a game with Dundalk.