McEnaney: Ulster decider is our ‘now or never’ moment

SEAMUS McENANEY has seen enough to know that Sunday is a ‘now or never’ moment for Monaghan.

By his own reckoning, ‘Banty’ hasn’t missed a championship match involving his county since 1982 and it is a tale taken from those glory days in the ‘80s that the current Monaghan manager that sums up why.

“I remember the time Gene Sherry lifted the National League trophy in Croke Park in 1985. He was only a young man at the time, just 23 or 24. He told a story about how before he lifted the trophy he was thinking ‘this isn’t so bad, I’ll be back up here three or four times in the next ten years’. He never got back up them steps. People can go through a career, a lifetime and never get up them steps. Those occasions are very few and far between.”