There may be no London in Derry, but Derry will soon be in London. The Board has no strategy, save for a short-sighted obsession with the county team. Our clubs and schools are champion horses, yet the county senior team is a donkey. During that great era of Derry senior football, Derry clubs won six Ulster club titles, the point being that club and county success can co-exist, and in Derry, it must. Perhaps, as my dear brother texted on Sunday night, "We should follow Kilkenny's example, stop playing county senior football and sell Celtic Park for social housing."

Source: Irish Independent April 01, 2018 16:03 UTC