Donegal’s McHugh desperately unlucky to miss out

The year 2002 was a difficult one for me as I spent most of it injured with a complicated ankle problem, writes Tony McEntee.

Bone bruising to a talo-calcaneal fusion with severe ligament damage is what they told me. All I remember was the many hours on a trampoline and aqua jogging to minimise the weight bearing as the injury slowly healed. It was a taster of what athletic sports people or non-team orientated athletes endure and accept as the norm.

For me, there was no self-satisfaction and the drive to keep going was simply the knowledge that we (Armagh) were on a pathway to something special: “I will believe where all those have failed before me.”