The Wee County captain is as ambitious as ever with new peaks coming into sight
Sam Mulroy: ‘I was captain in 2021 and Jim was very big on leadership and driving the group on. Just how he spoke to players and got us to bring up our levels, you can see why he’s been so successful.’ Photo: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile
On Monday last, Sam Mulroy got a text from his good friend from Monasterboice and Naomh Mairtin colleague JP Rooney, the former Louth player. The text was simple, containing a picture of young John Rooney in his back garden kicking a football. But it told Mulroy a lot.
You’d expect that the son of a goalscorer in Louth’s previous Leinster final appearance 15 years earlier would have been drawn naturally to that back-garden theatre of dreams. Not the case, apparently.