Battler John McGrath still has eyes on Croker

John McGrath could be forgiven for feeling like he’s entering the new year as a free man with the Wicklow footballers.

Struck down with leukaemia in 2011, it was only last summer the exciting forward who turns 30 this month received the landmark five-year all-clear news.

If he’s entirely honest, the start of 2017 doesn’t feel much different to any other year though with the Baltinglass man revealing how he immediately filed that torturous period away to a folder marked forgotten.