Ulster SFC Final

“I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so.” - WB Yeats, The Circus Animals’ Desertion

WHEN Cork clipped Monaghan’s wings in the first ever competitive meeting between the sides on Leeside this time last year, we saw for perhaps the first time in Seamus McEnaney’s tenure as Monaghan manager, the frailties in his team that were to emerge a few times since.