McEniff ‘love affair’ with Railway Cup ends in title victory

RIGHT now the old Railway Cup needs all the friends it can get. So it was with some sadness that we watched one of the competition’s greatest servants, Brian McEniff, disappear into the bowels of Croke Park for the last time after Ulster’s success in the football final on Saturday night.

A former player with the northern province, the Donegal man first managed the side back in 1983 when he masterminded an extra-time win over Leinster at Breffni Park and he had been doing the job since.

Saturday’s was his 13th title earned wearing the bainisteoir’s bib. He has patrolled sidelines in the competition in four provinces, three countries and two continents. Regardless of whether or not this competition survives, we will not see his like again.