West Belfast and Casement Park need each other

Scheduled to play their Sigerson Cup game against Queen’s University in Belfast, the management team of Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology made the sensible decision to book a hotel.

After all, Galway city to Belfast is 370 kilometres. GMIT stayed in the Carrickdale Hotel, which is in County Louth, 50 miles from Belfast, the last saloon before the border.

It’s 20 years since the first IRA ceasefire of 1994 and southerners are still terrified to rest their heads in the fourth green field.