Duffy battling tide in Donegal

With Antrim surprised by Westmeath in the Leinster championship preliminary round, then well and truly hammered by Limerick in the All-Ireland qualifiers, it’s time to ask: wherewith Ulster hurling?

Is the small ball game becoming the almost exclusive preserve of Munster and Leinster (now that Galway have moved house)?

Not if Paddy Duffy has anything to do with it — and he does. A Dub by way of Good Counsel but now long domiciled in Letterkenny, Paddy is the manager of the Donegal minor hurling team and a man on a mission — to spread the gospel of hurling.