 This victory allowed the club to advance to the senior grade, however, despite reaching the final four on a number of occasions throughout the 1980s, O'Connor's side failed to win the competition.On the football fields O'Connor helped St. Martin's to win the intermediate championship in 1982.O'Connor first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Wexford minor hurling team in the late 1970s.