Road to recovery will be long and bumpy for Laois

Traffic aside, it’s a straightforward spin from Portlaoise to Croke Park.

Seventy minutes would do it on a good day and yet HQ has become a distant dream for this generation of Laois footballers and supporters as the county seeks to scramble back up the ladder it careered down in recent years.

It’s 15 years now since Micko made them kings of Leinster.