'The main emotion I have at the moment is pride': Monaghan retain Division 1 status in dramatic fashion

BANTY BLISS: Monaghan vice-chairman Brendan Casey offers his hand of congratulations to the suspended Monaghan manager Seamus McEnaney, who attended the county’s relegation play-off with Galway as a spectator. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

This wasn’t how Seamus McEnaney would have envisaged watching his Monaghan players pull off a win for the ages, sitting in his civvies in the main stand in Clones.

The Monaghan manager was suspended from sideline duties because of the county’s Covid-19 regulations violation so sat among the 200 or so enthralled supporters.