Home comforts for Coughlan’s Demons

NOT many sporting outfits get to return to their less sophisticated roots.

It may be the preserve of the nostalgic to fantasize about swapping 21st century comforts for those atmospheric yesterdays but for UCC Demons captain Shane Coughlan, mother nature’s ferocity saw to it that he and his SuperLeague National Cup champions were forced to abandon the Mardyke Arena in November for the familiar surrounds of the storied Parochial Hall on the opposite side of the city.

It’s going over tried and tested ground, not to mention plain and simple patronising, when you fall into the trap of pigeon-holing basketball on Leeside as purely northside.