Multiple Dublin All-Ireland winning boss Jim Gavin says the return of Jack McCaffrey and Paul Mannion to the capital set-up is “not a simple plug and play.”
McCaffrey (28) has returned to the Dublin squad after missing three seasons, while Mannion (29) has sat out two. The duo won a raft of Sam Maguires with five-in-a-row winning boss, Gavin, before he walked away at the end of the 2019 season after six All-Ireland wins.
Gavin, speaking to Newstalk Breakfast, compared it to the shock return of Diarmuid Connolly in July 2019 for the five-in-a-row triumph. He said: “It’s great. No more so than when Diarmuid (Connolly) came back, I’d rather be looking at him than looking for him.
