The chasm didn’t look so wide until he was asked to jump it. After St Brigid’s first won an All-Ireland, county star Karl Mannion went straight back into Division 3 football for a league clash with Cavan. The worlds were suddenly very different. “I was caught in possession two or three times,” he told The Sunday Times a number of years ago.

Source: Irish Examiner January 17, 2026 14:15 UTC