Colin Sheridan: Ageless Morgan still a guarantee of 'buy-in'

How does a man of such years and experience have the energy to keep going?

SERIOUS SERVANT: UCC manager Billy Morgan during the HE GAA Sigerson Cup Round 3 match between University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

The banks of the river Corrib on a winter's night can be a cold and unforgiving place, but every now and then, when the wind is soft and the rain relents, the collegiate playing pitches in Dangan can provide enough nourishment for the soul to sustain a man till spring. 

Last Wednesday was such a night as the University of Galway and UCC played out a Higher Education Division 1 quarter-final in front of a modest congregation of spectators, as many of them intentional as accidental. Whatever their motive for being there, whether it was just to walk the dog or escape the house, they would have been pleasantly surprised by the happy outbreak of a decent game of football.