Sporting shutdown in a border down: A life and death issue descended into cheap bickering

Being just on the northern side of the border, some weird stuff has gone down, writes Declan Bogue.

This weekend last year we were fairly full of ourselves.

I was assisting the great Mickey Donnelly with Aghaloo O’Neill’s, the football club that skirts the Moy Bridge that separates Tyrone and Monaghan. We were playing my brother in law Chris Leonard’s club Belcoo, who themselves happen to share a bridge over the river MacNean that cuts a line between Fermanagh and Cavan, in a fairly harmless challenge match.