IT'S LIKE AN ADDICTION

I can't just take it Andy.. football is my drug

-  ORLA BANNON

AFTER stepping down as Meath manager last summer, Andy McEntee surprised people when he took the Antrim job a few weeks later. 

So why did he do it?

“My brother Gerry told me years and years ago that Championship football is a drug and he is probably right,” Andy says of his two-time All-Ireland-winning brother and Royals legend Gerry McEntee.

“You do get addicted to it. You grow up with it. You’ve been involved in it for most of your life.

“I was sitting at home doing nothing for two or three weeks and even at that stage I was going, ‘is this it?’.

“But the Antrim thing did come out of the blue.

“I couldn’t see myself doing a team in Leinster (and coming up against Meath), I definitely couldn’t have seen that.