QUESTION; ARE DERRY THE REAL DEAL?

WILL tomorrow deliver rain or blue skies? Like the weather in this part of the world, you might hope for sunshine but common sense says you should always bring your brolly (no pun intended).

Derry are the most infuriating team in the country come the summer. One cursory glance at their record this past five seasons is ample evidence of that.

Since reaching the All-Ireland semi-final in 2004 the Ulster side have accounted for Monaghan, Tyrone, Armagh and Donegal and yet they haven’t even made a single Ulster final. They have run Dublin to within one score in front of a blue-soaked Croke Park on All-Ireland quarter-final day and lost to Longford in a qualifier in front of a fraction of that crowd in Pearse Park.