McEneaney: proving people wrong is great

IT threatened to break them but instead it made them. Nearly four weeks after seven of their players walked off the panel and here Louth are, one of the top 12 teams in the country.

The obituaries were already written by the time they were drawn away to Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers and the forecast was just as gloomy when they made the trip to face Kildare last Saturday.

“It’s always great to do stuff that people say you can’t do,” said manager Eamon McEneaney. “It’s great to think that we are in the last 12 after the disappointment of the Wexford defeat and what happened since.