Rory O’Connor, gassed out and taken off in the closing minutes of that frantic semi-final, admitted he remains haunted by their failure to beat Tipp. “Still have nightmares about it,” acknowledged Wexford forward O’Connor. It’s only now that O’Connor feels Wexford are really maturing as a unit and a Fitzgerald departure would have set all of that progress back. “If a new manager had come in, it obviously then takes a year to set down your tone or your mark,” said O’Connor. “Firstly, you were listening to the Galway rumours but we know Davy so well now that we knew he wouldn’t do it,” said the 21-year-old.

Source: Irish Examiner November 08, 2019 05:37 UTC