Paul Galvin: 'Hard to really call it football' but Wexford hold out

A screaming gale wind and slashing, sideways rain brought the footballers of Waterford and Wexford face to face not just with the absolute reality of life in Division 4, but with the most pressing questions of existence, starting with ‘do I really want to be here?’

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It’s a well known line from the great Shirley Jackson that no live organism can bear conditions of absolute reality for too long. It’s not as well known that Jackson was inspired to write it after an NFL game on a stormy February evening in Dungarvan.