Cool Bergin all set to go again

IT was with more than a sceptical eye that Joe Bergin saw Galway’s relegation from Allianz Division One almost swept under the carpet after the U21s’ All-Ireland win last month.

After losing five games on the trot before staging a battling but unsuccessful finish to the spring campaign, the U21s’ success was termed the rising tide that would float all boats.

Bergin hopes so but experience has taught him to disbelieve. Nine years ago, he was the captain of a star-studded Galway U21 team that beat Dublin in an All-Ireland decider in Portlaoise.