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Gallagher eyes Erne return
Former Fermanagh star Rory Gallagher is close to making a return to the Erne county football panel.
During his exile, the much travelled forward lined out with clubs in Dublin and Cavan and is currently with St. Gall's in Antrim. Gallagher briefly lined out with the Cavan county team also.
Now however, recently married Gallagher is living in his native county again and is keen to play in the green jersey once more. Since he left the panel for the first time in 2003, both Charlie Mulgrew and Malachy O'Rourke have given him trials and he even played in the league in 2005, but Gallagher didn't make the cut for championship on either occasion.
Recently though, the renowned placekicker, 31, attended another trial game and may rejoin the panel soon. Opinion is generally polarised in Fermanagh on the subject of Gallagher but he is keen to put any lingering bitterness from the past behind him.
"Some people said I was hard to handle. Others said 'he wants it all his own way he's a dictator'. I'd have felt at the time Fermanagh weren't doing everything they could to be successful and I would have been trying to push it in that direction. I wouldn't be shy about being confrontational in regard to that.
"Maybe at times I did overstep the mark and I could have been more diplomatic in the way I went to managers or the county board about trying to improve things. But I just wanted what was best for us."
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