Fed-up Bradley calls for Derry changes

Paddy Bradley has launched a stinging broadside at Derry GAA chiefs and a number of stayaway players after the county’s disappointing exit from the All-Ireland football championship in Pearse Park last weekend.

That defeat to Longford, in the first round of the qualifiers, brought a difficult season to a premature close, one in which they almost slipped into Division Three of the Allianz League and fell 10 points short of Donegal in the Ulster Championship.

“Whenever I started off, the in-thing was to get playing for your county. You were mad to get playing for the county,” Bradley, one of Derry’s best players Saturday, told The Irish News.