Yeats men show the Walsh way

ONE was a foot soldier and the other a commander-in-chief when Galway ruled the roost in Connacht and beyond but there was an inescapable sense of a baton being passed under Ben Bulben’s watchful eye on Saturday evening.

John O’Mahony has spent four years attempting to breathe new life into the comatose soul of Mayo football but it is Sligo who have been born again with the arrival of Kevin Walsh.

O’Mahony may have puffed his chest out afterwards and, like Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II, declared his intention to continue fighting the good fight but it was a broadside delivered with an empty shell.