Gardening leave no longer on Walsh’s Wicklow agenda

WHEN Thomas Walsh strides out at O’Moore Park tomorrow the sighs of relief on the Wicklow sideline will be palpable.

It’s not that they believed the towering midfielder would conform to the rumour mill and rejoin his native Carlow. Rather, they’ll be thankful that six months of speculation, suggestion and apparent dilemma surrounding the player is now officially at a close.

Since January, Walsh was forced to plead with media to leave him alone amid a hotbed of suggestions that he was to rejoin Carlow after two years with the Garden County.