Sheedy demands change

It’s Thursday afternoon and Jack Sheedy is under pressure. He is tending to his two-year old. A little over 48 hours out from what many believe will be his Longford team’s last competitive game of 2014, he is working to a tight schedule.

He will be free, he says, to talk about today’s game in around 40 minutes. Privately, one suspects his child will be asleep in 40 minutes and, confirming that notion, Sheedy is surrounded by calm when he next answers his phone.

The ticking clock remains his master and having already intruded, we are quickly down to the business of travelling to Celtic Park to play Derry, national league finalists.