It’s ok, you’re allowed to like other sports

THERE’S a well-known, probably apocryphal story, about one of the first All-Ireland finals played after the wireless became a feature of life in rural Ireland.

As was often the case, there was a single radio in this particular townland, so a dozen or so men gathered outside of a friend’s window on the first Sunday in September.

There, the charitable neighbour placed the radio on the sill so the group could listen to the game described from Croke Park, while outside on the street.