Donal Hickey: Indian summer was great but it was no surprise

The weather is often good in the harvest month of September - and on All Ireland final days

Donal Hickey: Our 'Indian summer' was badly needed after what was probably the dullest August on record. 

Some people seem surprised at the fine weather we’ve enjoyed of late. “It’s like being in Spain,’’ they were gleefully saying. But the elements are often kind in the harvest month of September.

We remember how during wet summers in times past farmers would despair of saving their hay or drying turf, only for experienced grey heads to offer hope. “We’ll get it in September,’’ they’d say. And they were usually correct.