 Two years later, he was substituted in the Munster final against Cork in Limerick, though his defenders were also on an off-day against a rampant Cork team and gave him little of the cover he enjoyed in his early career from the "Hell's Kitchen" crew of John Doyle, Michael Maher and Kieran Carey all of whom had now departed the scene.In 1971 O'Donoghue was relegated as the first-choice goalkeeper, making way for his long-time understudy, Peter O'Sullivan of Cashel King Cormacs.However, he won a fifth and final Munster medal as a substitute against Limerick In Killarney that summer.