McEntee hoping for a happy homecoming

WHEN Gerry McEntee strides out to patrol the Páirc Táilteann sideline tomorrow it will be a homecoming in more ways than one.

Tales of the midfield legend’s dynamism in a green jersey are ten a penny among Royal County sentimentalists who long for a return to the glory days of the late 1980s. It’s a little known fact, however, or to be more precise, a long forgotten fact, that McEntee is equally a Summerhill legend of sorts.

Best known as a Nobber clubman through and through, personal circumstances and, perhaps, a desire for county title success, saw him make a brief playing switch to Summerhill in 1990.