Clyda boss Walsh wary of Kiltane

John Walsh is your ordinary newspaper reader, his daily preference and perhaps the odd Sunday read are the height of his print interests.

Among the few titles scattered across his kitchen table in Mourneabbey, you’d be hard pressed to come across the Connaught Telegraph or Western People. And yet every night since the turn of Christmas, Walsh has been perched in front of the computer, trawling through the archives of said publications. Far from checking how cattle are trading in Ballina or which Fine Gael hopeful wishes to stand as Enda’s running mate in 2016, the Clyda Rovers manager has occupied himself studying every available match report involving tomorrow’s All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final opponents Kiltane in Ballinasloe (2pm).

Their run to the Mayo final provides uneasy reading, the county final triumph over Kilmaine not doing much to settle the stomach after dinner, while their march through Connacht is not advisable bedtime literature.