Is it possible that people have ran out of things to say about Dublin v Kerry? Even on Up for the Match, where the tolerance for cliché is high, they looked a touch jaded by it all.

This time it wasn’t different.

While rumination on the efficacy of curses is no longer regarded as cutting edge analysis, slightly more respectable is the idea Mayo are labouring under some fatal psychological flaw that is continually preventing them from reaching the mountain top. What else explains seven successive All-Ireland defeats?

There was a time, back in the late 1990s and throughout most of the 2000s, when every Galway defeat was followed by plaintive calls from the vanquished westerners to change the system.

It remains a mystery why RTÉ hasn’t cashed in on the Irish people’s love of nostalgia.

Those otherwise engaged during Saturday’s Tyrone-Monaghan game and unfamiliar with the emerging crop of Tyrone footballers will have been perplexed by seeing the name of Tiernan McCann listed among the trending topics on Twitter late on Saturday evening.