New location, new opportunity for Niall Coakley
A McGrath Cup fixture on a dirty January evening under lights in Templetuohy is hardly the most glamorous of arenas in which to make your inter-county debut. Coakley, though, would probably have played in the dark had you asked him. He was more than grateful for the start and the corner-forward’s thank you was a neatly packaged 2-3 which saw him finish as top scorer.
The 27-year old Carrigaline native, having transferred club allegiances to St Jude’s in 2015 following his move to Dublin a year earlier, had buried all ambition of lining out in the red shirt.
