Jack McCarron makes up for lost time with Monaghan

The cruciate was the worst. The cruciate is always the worst.

Jack McCarron should know. Five years since he broke onto the Monaghan senior panel, he is only now beginning to make a name for himself. Because for a time there he was the guy who would have had no luck at all if it wasn’t for bad luck.

How bad was it? Well, there was the shoulder operation that cost him most of 2012 and there was the cruciate suffered in a meaningless club game against Castleblayney when Currin had already been relegated at the back end of 2014.