Dundalk Football Club are staring into the abyss. One of Irelands greatest teams sit bottom of the league, having lost their last 3 games and were unable to pay player and staff wages a couple of weeks ago as the Brian Ainscough era began to unravel. I'm from Newry but we always had more in common with Dundalk, 12 miles up the road but over the border, than Banbridge, 12 miles up the road in Northern Ireland. On both sides of my family there are Dundalk connections and it always felt familiar. My first ever football match was on a Sunday in the autumn of 1988 with my uncle Leslie, not even a blood uncle, a Dundalk man married to my mothers sister. I was competing in the scór for our GAA club with his children later that evening. During the day, they were looking after me, with my parents at work, we went to see his mother who lived in the town. My auntie Helen and the younger children were left to visit while I was brought to the football at Oriel Park. Derry City were the visitors