Éamonn Fitzmaurice: County of Kerry might be delighted for Mayo but defeat difficult to stomach

There is always a curse isn’t there? When a team are enduring a historically long drought, black magic is to be blamed. Lack of talent or performance is explained away.

The Boston Red Sox went 86 years without winning the World Series, the famous Curse of the Bambino was responsible after they sold the great Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

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