Jack must now look to his spiritual home

RTÉ pundit Kevin McStay carries his anti-northern baggage much more lightly than some of his other colleagues on The Sunday Game.

Jack must now look to his spiritual home

While not as blatantly obvious as Pat Spillane, the Mayo man peddles many of the same stereotypes and clichés.

Like many southerners, McStay clings tightly to the age-old view that Ulster is the home of negative, spiteful, rough-house tactics — the type of ugly stuff you see when Mayo and Meath contest an All-Ireland final.

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