Longford have been lifted by the news that Paul Barden will line out for a 15th season with their footballers.
Manager Jack Sheedy must plan for 2015 without John Keegan - the midfielder has taken a break from the game - but Clonguish forward Barden has indicated he will play on for yet another campaign.
Barden and Limerick’s John Galvin are the last remaining players in the country to have played senior inter-county championship football in the 1990s.
“Paul had a little bit of corrective work done in the close season so we hope to have him back in the next four weeks or so and see how it goes from there,” Sheedy told the Irish Examiner.
“But his intention is that if his body is up to it, he’s happy, he wants to play for another year. It’s just wear and tear, he just needs to manage these things and he’s going about it in the right way.”
Longford beat Offaly in their Leinster SFC opener but exited at the quarter-final stage when they were defeated by Wexford.
The Division 4 midlanders then enjoyed a sensational qualifier win over Derry at Celtic Park - in which Barden bagged 1-2 - before ending their summer with a humbling 2-17 to 0-6 hammering from Tipperary.
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