GAA Digest - Meath in shock as Joe Sheridan emigrates

Meath football has been rocked by the emigration of star full forward Joe Sheridan to the U.S.
The Seneschalstown star played in Sunday’s NFL defeat away to Galway, then flew out of Dublin on Monday.

Construction worker Sheridan turned down a job offer organized by the Meath County Board to start a new life in Boston.

“After a lot of thought I have decided to emigrate to take up an opportunity I simply could not refuse. I finalized my decision to travel on Friday last,” said Sheridan, scorer of a controversial goal in the 2010 Leinster final.

“I would like to thank the Meath senior football team management and the Meath county board who worked hard to secure employment for me, but I feel that this opportunity abroad is something I need to do.”

Meath boss Seamus McEnaney insists he had no issues with Sheridan and revealed the door will be left open if he wants to return to the squad this summer.

“Joe’s a real good fella, a very likeable lad,” said McEnaney. “I’ve not had a problem with him for the 16 months I’ve been here.

“We secured employment for him but Joe felt this was an opportunity he couldn’t resist to travel abroad. Joe has made up his mind and I fully respect his decision. There’s no getting away that he is a loss to Meath football.

“Sometimes when one door closes another opens, and that’s what we’d be hoping for. You’d hope that he’d be back in a few weeks’ time or a month, but we wouldn’t be holding out any hope of that.

“It would be a case of he’s gone for the foreseeable future as far as we’re concerned at the moment.”
 
Cork Wins

CORK survived a late Dublin rally to take the National League points in Croke Park on Sunday and put a smile on the face of manager Jimmy Barry Murphy.

“I’m delighted because Dublin really put it up to us in the second half,” he said after the 2-18 to 2-17 victory.

“The first half wasn’t exciting but it caught fire in the second-half. Dublin threatened to pull away and I was delighted with our response.

“The substitutions worked well. William Egan and Darren Sweetnam were outstanding when he came in and Lorcan McLoughlin did very well too. We were four points behind and our response was excellent and that’s the most encouraging thing.”

Paul Ryan was narrowly wide with a late, late free that could have rescued a draw for Dublin.
“It was difficult, but I thought he would point it,” added Barry Murphy.

“He’s an excellent free-taker but it was a difficult angle, in fairness. I was well pleased to see it going wide, I wouldn’t have had any cribs with a draw at that stage.”

Dublin boss Anthony Daly was happy with everything bar the result as his team ran Cork close.

“It is hard to sum it up. It was one of those ones that was up and down. We looked like we had it. We really felt at half-time that we were fortunate to be within two points even though we had the two best goal chances,” said Daly after the one point loss.
 
Kerry Wins

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