Sons of Gowna: The Cavan club with 18 players whose fathers were county champions
If it wasn’t the last championship match of the century played in Breffni Park, it wasn’t far off it.
On an October afternoon in 1999, Pat McEnaney was yet to sound his half-time whistle in the Ulster senior club football quarter-final, and Cavan’s Gowna had All-Ireland champions Crossmaglen Rangers in trouble. Dermot McCabe, who had starred for Ireland in the International Rules series against Australia a year earlier, was unmarkable, scoring a goal and laying on another.


