Yes Nemo, Slaughtneil have their eyes on March too

Nemo Rangers, Slaughtneil are coming for you.

The men in maroon will have celebrated the arrival of another Seamus McFerran Cup in their clubrooms as befitting such a special guest, but in the Athletic Grounds, there was no cartwheels, no fireworks.

Captain Patsy Bradley made a speech with a dozen team-mates gathered around the foot of the stand. The players joked throughout it. An eerie hush there was not. But Patsy, much like The Bull McCabe described his son Tadhg in ‘The Field’, is no natural orator.