Wicklow exile Glynn

‘Micko would be going around to the crowd talking to lads from four up to 80 and he’d have a word for everyone. The players just ran and Micko made everyone smile.

‘But there was method behind it. He would practically guarantee that you would win; he was telling you constantly that we would win and my best years for Wicklow came under Micko. I was talking to Ross Munnelly and he said it was the same for him with Laois.

‘We did all the hard pre-season training stuff and the whole country knew about it but really what he was doing was making it mentally tough. He’d be weaning out certain players with the heavy stuff, seeing who wanted to be there. And then when the summer came it was all football training, all internal games. Nothing modern about it but it worked.’

Glynn would love to be able to play hurling regularly, too, for Wicklow but says the workload for a modern dual player is such that, ‘you’d only swamp yourself and get fed up of both’.

For now, his sole focus is on today’s Leinster Championship match against Laois.

‘Our Championship record in Aughrim is class – only Meath and Armagh have beaten us there in recent times. We know that in our heart of hearts we can take anyone there.’

It feels good to be back where he belongs.