Colm O'Regan: A super satisfying result for Irish football, but now we're hungry for stats and analysis

After a match like that, janey, you’d go to an extra Confession to see what the priest thought about Hungary’s time-wasting

Jayson Molumby runs to celebrate with Troy Parrott after the striker's third goal of the game delivered a precious win for Ireland. Picture: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne.

You could talk about any number of things from 4ish o’clock last Sunday. You could talk about the penalty in years gone by that we wouldn’t have got and we’d be lamenting it for three generations. Or you could talk about the second goal which was EXACTLY the kind of goal we concede to tricky, nippy foreigners, or the third goal which was like almost every important goal we’ve scored since 1988.

You could talk about the fact that so many of us released 10 years of frustration in a roar. There were probably emotions still stuck somewhere in the gut since covid. in