‘You don’t stop learning from McGeeney’

IT has been three years since Ronan Sweeney made it over to Glasgow to watch his beloved Celtic play but he doesn’t have to jump through too many hoops to be reminded about the Parkhead club.

A few years ago, the Kildare footballer had a tattoo of the Bhoys inked and Kieran McGeeney’s appointment as manager to the county’s senior footballers in October of 2007 brought with it another comforting link to the Scottish Cup champions.

Back in 1989, McGeeney played on the same Armagh minor team as Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Sweeney has seen enough of the former Northern Ireland international down the years to detect the similarities with his bainisteoir.