Almost five years ago to the week Eibhear Quilligan was away in Boston for a few days with some of the Feakle lads when he received a text from Brian Lohan. Or at least someone purporting to be Brian Lohan. Quilligan wasn’t buying that it was the Brian Lohan, just appointed the new Clare hurling manager, or that the invite to an upcoming trial was for real.
“We were just after our first night over there, so when I got up the next morning and saw my phone I thought, ‘Yeah, right. One of these lads is pulling my leg here.’Â
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