Busy Cunningham a dual star of a different sort

PREPARING Garrycastle for a second Leinster club football final in three years in what could be his last game in charge would be enough to keep most managers occupied. But Anthony Cunningham’s been getting accustomed to multi-tasking since he his appointment as John McIntyre’s successor over the Galway hurlers in late October.

Culling one-third of last season’s panel shows the St Thomas man is tending to his own county, just as much as the Westmeath outfit.

And he appreciates as much as he’s called for patience, there will be no honeymoon period in Galway. Even though they have reached the All-Ireland semi-finals just once in the last nine years (2005), relegation from the six-team Division 1A would go down like a lead balloon in Galway.