‘Battle of Aughrim’ haunts Brennan

AS a Laois man employed in Kildare for the past four years, Willie Brennan should have driven to work last Monday week licking his lips at the prospect of delivering an unmerciful slagging to his many co-workers of a Lilywhite persuasion.

Wicklow had just recorded the summer’s first bona fide shock against Kildare the day before and, under normal circumstances, Brennan would have few qualms about picking off his buddies like ducks in a barrel.

“They were talking about Wicklow when I got in but I didn’t open my mouth,” says the Graiguecullen man.