Just five years ago, Donegal goalkeeper Shaun Patton was playing in a MacLarnon Cup final in goal for St Eunan’s Letterkenny.

There was a time when Cavan’s footballers could justifiably walk tall alongside Kerry’s as the games leaders. The days when John Joe O’Reilly, John Wilson and Phil ‘The Gunner’ Brady were household names.

Andy McGovern is used to beating the odds.

WITH nearly 400 entries, the 2007 Charolais National Show in Carrick on Shannon resulted in Co Cork exhibitors Kevin and Cynthia Foley from Killeagh exhibiting the overall champion female, Royal Pivoine, and the senior and overall reserve champion male, Royal Vangogh.