Byron hoping Lady Luck will shine on Laois at long last

FERGAL BYRON feels it’s about time that the Laois footballers got a little rub of the green.

Last year they were pipped by Westmeath in the Leinster final replay. Less than a week later they crashed out of the championship to Tyrone, a loss compounded by the horror injury to Brian ‘Beano’ McDonald.

A year on and Lady Luck was not part of the Laois entourage for the Leinster Final defeat to Dublin at Croke Park. In the closing moments Ross Munnelly and Tom Kelly were desperately close but that element of good fortune was again absent.