Colin Sheridan: Mayo's McStay seems unburdened by legacy trauma
UNBURDENED: If McStay is worried about Mayo’s status in the following pack, his comments last week suggest otherwise. Confidence is quite a Scandinavian concept in Mayo.
You have to hand it to Kevin McStay. It’s the dead of winter, that period of purgatory between Christmas and the start of the National Football League, and, with the exception of some Sigerson Cup action and the All-Ireland club finals, there is little to be excited about as a Gaelic Football fan, especially if you’re from Mayo.Â
Yet, last week, in the bowels of the stadium formerly known as MacHale Park, the former Ballina Stephenites man held court for all who were willing to listen. As some counties shut the door completely on the press, and most others treat the fourth estate with Orwellian levels of suspicion, McStay deserves credit for doing an obvious thing very, very well - communicating with fans and journalists. Perhaps it’s his experience as an analyst with RTÉ, perhaps it’s just his personality, but his consistency in communicating outward is admirable. It won’t win them anything, but it at least feeds the hungry beast that is the Mayo public.
