Border patrol to be repelled

GAELIC GAMES:"EVERY TIME we cross the border we are expected to get beat. Or it's hailed as a massive shock that we have won," said Antrim's Neil McManus this week, but to be awarded belated credit for last year's scalping of Dublin in Croke Park the Saffrons must repeat the performance.

And to do it down in Wexford would be some task.

But it seems beyond them. Even factoring in the absence of centre back and captain Darren Stamp (who may yet feature), Wexford showed in the defeat of Cork and draw with Tipperary, to ensure survival in Division One, that they have enough about them to win.

WEXFORD: N Breen; P Roche, M O’Hanlon; K Rossiter; L Prendergast, C Kenny, M Jacob; W Doran, D Redmond; PJ Nolan, H Kehoe, S Banville; R Jacob, É Martin, Jim Berry.

ANTRIM: C OConnell; C McGuinness, C Donnelly, K Molloy; A Graffin, M Herron, C Herron; P Shiels, B McFall; S McRory, K Stewart, N McManus; C McCann, D Hamill, E McCloskey.

Referee: C McAllister (Cork).