Returning players boost Fermanagh boss Canavan

NEW Fermanagh manager Peter Canavan has received a welcome Christmas present.

Several players who withdrew from the squad for a variety of reasons, including disenchantment with the management set-up under John O’Neill, will make themselves available in 2012. And this is proving a timely fillip for double All-Ireland winner Canavan as he bids to transform the team’s fortunes.

Canavan received an initial setback when it was disclosed that wing-back Peter Sherry would be out of the frame as he is now working in England while his brother James, a Dublin-based physiotherapist who captained Fermanagh last year, is still receiving recovering from the dislocated jaw he sustained while assisting Roslea in the recent All County League final.