Maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Éamonn Fitzmaurice was keeping a record of exactly what he was doing this spring. Ronan Shanahan had been a starter for the first six matches but wasn’t called off the bench against Tyrone. Paul Murphy and Paul Geaney also began those matches but didn’t travel to Omagh. Barry O’Sullivan did but didn’t add to his six starts while Brian Ó Beaglaoich made his sixth in Healy Park. Fitzmaurice has described his work as a three-year project but the one thing he isn’t short of is options.

Source: Irish Examiner March 27, 2018 00:11 UTC