FAI Cup final must show the indifferent just what they're missing

If the League of Ireland is to prosper, it will only be because it attracts, not seeks to compel, writes Liam Mackey.

There’s something about the League of Ireland which lends itself to a particularly trenchant brand of gallows humour, a wintry conviction widely shared among the cognoscenti that even when the glass is half-full, it’s really half-empty.

You could call it a kind of gritty realism born of a surfeit of painful experience.