OFFALY senior footballers had their first brush with reality in 2025 as Fermanagh ended their winning streak in Ederney, a few miles north of Enniskillen on Sunday afternoon.
National Football League Division 3 Round 4
Fermanagh 1-13
Offaly …….3-6
With their confidence sky high after winning their opening three games, a win here would have made them odds on for promotion.
Their chances of going up remain very much alive but they are now on much rockier ground. Offaly left themselves with a mountain to climb here after a very thought provokingly poor first half when they trailed by nine points after playing with the wind.
However, they almost came back from the dead in the second half, getting the deficit back to a point…