Article: Monaghan carrying goodwill of whole country

MONAGHAN will have the ultimate 'sixteenth man' when they confront Kerry in round three of the All Ireland football qualifiers at Croke Park on Sunday (4pm) - a tidal wave of goodwill sweeping round them from the rest of the country.

When Seamus McEnaney's side lost by a solitary point to the Kingdom in last year's All Ireland semi-final, the anguish and disappointment within the Monaghan dressing-room was overpowering.

McEnaney himself said it was "one of the worst moments of my life" and, despite his palpable emotion, vowed in a hushed Croke Park corridor that his team would be back.

And they are. They will venture into Headquarters again on Sunday buoyed by qualifier wins over Derry and ...

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