The Big Interview: John McIntyre’s conflict of interest

Whether Galway win or lose, John McIntyre will be outside their dressing room tomorrow evening seeking out words of despair or triumph. Win or lose, he will feel despair and triumph too.

At some point tomorrow John McIntyre will look down from the press box high in the Hogan Stand and monitor a sideline that he has patrolled himself, a place he knows well that’s more unforgiving than any critic.

Below he’ll see two men that he’s followed one way or the other for decades now, and who in some ways are now following him.