Rory Donnelly

Rory Donnelly was born in Belfast on 18 February 1992, the kind of place where boyish ambition and brutal expectation collide before dawn. He broke into Cliftonville at nineteen, scored hat-tricks against Linfield, and left for Swansea at twenty, carrying the weight of a city that measures worth in trophies and forgetting. Years later he returns to the same clubs, not as a promise but a pattern, chasing the shape of the boy who once ran past doubt.