Age remains no barrier for Louth manager Pete McGrath

Pete McGrath has a cold. It’s kept the 63-year-old out of his thrice-weekly runs, with a weekly visit to the big stone at the top of Kilbroney Mountain outside his village of Rostrevor.

It’s kept him from the gym where he goes to pump iron.

But it hasn’t kept him out of the Darver GAA Centre of Excellence as he prepares Louth for life in Division Two of the National Leagues. The first game, by amusing coincidence, is the visit of Down to Drogheda.