Career
He played hurling with his local club Arravale Rovers and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s. Club
O'Donoghue played his club hurling with his local Arravale Rovers club in Tipperary town. Inter-county
The following year, O'Donoghue was captain of the minor team when he captured a second Munster minor title.
He later joined the then powerful Tipp senior team, now regarded as one of hurling's most formidable teams in any era. In doing so, he succeeded his fellow West Tipperary man, Dónal O'Brien of Knockavilla Kickhams, who had emigrated to New York. Later that year O'Donoghue captured his first senior Munster title, as well as his first senior All-Ireland medal.
Two years later in 1967 Tipperary continued their dominance with O'Donoghue capturing a third provincial medal in the process. Unfortunately, his side were later defeated by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. 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.
