Cormac MacConnell: Mind the bounce when Brady’s about

Another thrilling GAA championship season is due to explode on the sporting scene in a matter of hours and it pains me deeply to have to reveal today, after all these Croke Park years, the full, unvarnished story behind Kerry’s incredible success rate in so many Septembers.

I dislike having to demolish myths and fairy tales but, dammit, I have a job to do here every week, and that is to relate the pure truth.

I would never have released the story I’m about to free now were it not for an explosive sporting scandal in another code entirely, in America.