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His comments pre-empted a return to the defensive defiance and stubbornness that characterised the 2024 season. It saw United finish last year with the second-best defensive record in the league.

One way to gauge the uptick in the popularity of the League of Ireland is to look at the importance placed on the pronouncements of its central characters. It is often argued that the charisma of Damien Duff and Stephen Bradley has helped to drive the league to new heights.

It would have been an unthinkable sentiment only a few years ago and might still incite debate and disagreement, but the upward trajectory of the league is undeniable.

There is a lot to being a League of Ireland manager. The role often entails management, coaching, recruiting, organising facilities and fundraising and sometimes more.

There may be different versions of what transpired in Greenogue Park yesterday afternoon. None are likely to quell the feeling that it was an embarrassing afternoon for the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division.

There may be different versions of what transpired in Greenogue Park yesterday afternoon. None are likely to quell the feeling that it was an embarrassing afternoon for the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division.

Galway United’s win last March in the Ryan McBride Brandywell was the result that demanded they be taken seriously by the rest of the division. Less than three weeks into this season, they have already accomplished that task as they seek to repeat a massive win tomorrow night.

John Caulfield is a man comfortable in his own skin. He mingled easily after a fan event last Wednesday but these nights weren’t always as easy. After the success of the last two seasons, it is easily forgotten that similar fan meetings after the 2022 season were far frostier affairs. But both then and now, the United manager commanded the room.

Most of the 400 souls who saw Galway United take on Cobh Ramblers in 1997 might have consigned it to the dustbin of memory. But a humdrum night in the First Division sparked something in an impressionable lad from Newbridge making his first pilgrimage to a rainy Terryland.