Ultan Harney fully focused on Roscommon’s final task

Ultan Harney was not one of four U21 players that Kevin McStay’s Roscommon used against Mayo last Sunday, but there’s a good reason for that.

Harney has had injury problems, a late club campaign from last season and he also had the Sigerson Cup to negotiate. As willing and as powerful as he is, the body needs minding. And Saturday’s EirGrid Connacht Under-21 final against Mayo is the immediate priority.

“I’m just trying to get a run of it now,” he says. “I tore my hamstring in early December in a club game and I was out for eight weeks. It was grand then for three weeks but I suppose the Sigerson weekend, I played (for DCU) on the Friday against Jordanstown and then it went in the warm-up. I’m just back now two weeks trying to get a run at it.”