Garvey delighted with Carlow’s upward mobility

LEINSTER SHC (Preliminary Round): Carlow v Laois (Portlaoise, 7pm)

When you’ve striven for the seemingly impossible, and then achieved it, what next? Where do you go from here? Let’s address that question a little later though. Because to put such issues into context, one must first look at the distance already travelled; the extent of the achievement that is the work of many more people than manager, Kevin Ryan and his current panel of players.

Although recent results wouldn’t support the view, Carlow is in fact a football county, with the ratio of clubs in the region of 3:1 in the big ball’s favour.