Redemption for Dublin’s revered saviour Dalo

At 8:38 yesterday morning, the phone chimed in receipt of a text from an eloquent press colleague of Dublin persuasion.

When we say text, we tell a lie: messages such as these ones read more like odes than anything else. You want to be sitting down before thumbing it open.

Usually, they arrive the morning of the footballers’ Championship games, extolling the virtues of the team and conveying the hopes for the afternoon ahead, but yesterday was different. Just like the day after Pat Gilroy-led All-Ireland success in September 2011, the hurlers’ triumph called for a break in routine.