Keaney’s all tangled up in blue

AFTER they parted ways late in January, Pat Gilroy’s number was one of the last Conal Keaney expected to flash up on his phone.

But that it did the week before last. The conversation, just as it had been nine months ago when the Ballyboden St Endas man revealed he was switching back to the Dublin hurlers, was cordial.

The sales manager at the Avon Rí resort in Blessington, Co Wicklow, Keaney was asked by Gilroy at the last minute to facilitate the panel for an impromptu training weekend.