Cassidy: Family and football all that counts

KEVIN CASSIDY’S last outing for Donegal in championship football was drawn out like a funeral procession with the same unavoidable conclusion.

In last summer’s qualifiers, a shapeless and splintered Donegal were chasing shadows. For Cassidy, his closing chapter was going to be a depressing one. He called it a day.

“I had made my mind up that would be it,” he said.