‘It’ll be tough but tough we can do, Dalo’

ANTHONY DALY revealed a text message from Ger Loughnane shows his former All-Ireland-winning manager is prepared to fight his battle against leukaemia.

“In some ways, I always think of Loughnane as nearly indestructible, in his own sort of way,” said the ex-Clare captain, now manager of Dublin.

“Nothing ever got to him. He has a fight on his hands but as he said in a text back to me ‘it’ll be tough but tough we can do, Dalo’. No better man, if anyone can turn it upside down, he can do it.”

Daly was shocked by the news of Loughnane’s illness as he was of another Clare stalwart, Fr Harry Bohan, who is also in hospital.

“It was a huge shock and Fr Harry is sick as well, a great mentor and friend of mine as well and the two of them from Feakle and I suppose the two most successful Clare hurling managers of all time. Fr Harry won the two leagues in the 70s with Ger playing.”