Offaly football still searching for return to glory days

Offaly’s slide from football superpower to forgotten backwater has happened, for the most part, on the fringes of the wider consciousness but the county’s parlous state has been framed in a sharper focus of late.

Eugene McGee’s passing, allied to Dublin’s drive for five and the web that links them to Seamus Darby and 1982, will add an extra layer of context to the fortunes of a side still sinking under the tide of history and modern neglect.