Getting the message

Brendan Lynskey looks back on it now and chuckles.

Just 15 months ago, it was no laughing matter. The newspaper piece he, along with Conor Hayes and Noel Lane, contributed to was the most cutting appraisal of a Galway team. Published on the morning of their Leinster semi-final against Dublin, it was an article that had the county talking.

Each multiple All-Ireland winner laid more than a blow against John McIntyre’s side.