Euro 2016: After all ... we’ll always have Lille

Airports and ferry terminals across Europe are full of tired bodies who are now coming home, wherever that maybe.

Lyon, Paris, Roscoff, Brussels, Geneva — the departure points for the faithful returning from their footballing pilgrimage are as varied as their destinations.

Dublin, Cork, Galway, London, Melbourne, Toronto. If football is a religion then the Irish came from all over to witness miracles in France, and left with the tiny scrap of evidence needed to prolong the faith and enable the obsession further.