'I didn’t want to have regrets' – Opting for Stateside football this summer

Heading to America offers a change of pace on the pitch and off it.

Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 09:27

Maurice Brosnan

The what ifs. Roscommon’s promising championship flamed out just short on all fronts. Two points from a league final. Four from Galway in the Connacht semi-final. A single score sent them out against Cork. What might have been if they had their key performer from 2022?

At the beginning of his intercounty career, Ultan Harney walked along a treacherous rope bridge. They knew where they were starting from and where they wanted to go but no one knew if they had any chance of making it. It had been five years and counting since their last provincial title. They’d only made one final in that window. Sligo shocked them in the summer of 2015 and dumped them out of Connacht.