Offaly sense new optimism after defeat of Antrim

Offaly 2-20 Antrim 1-15

Rouse, his brother John, Stephen Darby, and Alan McNamee answered the SOS after Kerryman Stephen Wallace and his backroom team were relieved of their duties in the wake of their Leinster championship defeat.

They immediately set about prevailing upon Darby’s son Brian to reverse his decision to retire, and called up a number of players who had fallen out with their predecessors. Of those, John Moloney started and, like Darby Jr, had a major influence on Saturday.