Dessie Farrell admits the 41-year-old former Footballer of the Year hasn’t come back to sit on the bench
“Stephen is training a couple of weeks now,” Farrell told us afterwards. “He’s fit and healthy and keen and eager. We’ve had a number of goalkeeping injury woes – you’ll all be fairly familiar with them. Evan [Comerford] hasn’t played any minutes this season yet and he’s working his way back, hopefully for some stage during the championship. Hugh O’Sullivan, our under-20 keeper, he’s been injured recently as well and is tied up with the 20s.
Still, it maybe doesn’t say great things about the state of the Dublin squad that they’ve had to send up the bat signal three times now over the winter for players who haven’t played intercounty football in at least three years. Jack McCaffrey is working his way back from injury and Paul Mannion was a late addition to the substitutes here, coming off the bench to swing over a trademark point in the second half in his first game since December 2020. All three are generational players, clearly.
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