Damien Duff: When Roy left, it let lads breathe

Damien Duff is clearly sick of Saipan.

Not the 2002 World Cup, mind. That was a blast. It’s the rupture that preceded it on the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands that gets under his skin.

Next Monday will be 16 years to the day since ‘IT’ happened and still a nation hasn’t quite let go.