Ryan and reason

FOR any individual, at the very least, it should have made for pleasurable reading. ‘Darragh Ryan, half the Wexford team on his own’.

Due to injury, Darragh was to miss the All-Ireland quarter-final against Antrim, and that was the compliment paid in passing by Babs Keating beforehand, when the former Tipperary dual-star-turned-pundit was factoring into his preview the potential loss to Wexford of their injured full-back.

"Jesus that's the greatest load of caic of all time!", the straight-talking civil engineer snorts. "I'd say there are probably 10 guys on this Wexford team playing better than me, but I'm just better suited to full-back. I wouldn't last five minutes at midfield, so you can't make a statement like that. Some players are more suited to certain positions."