Trying to decode the Dublin puzzle

So now we know the true secret to the Dubs’ success, writes Michael Moynihan.

Last week some intriguing audio emerged from the Banter series of talks featuring Michael Darragh MacAuley, the Dublin midfielder.

In conversation with Jim Carroll of Banter the big man said: “I distinctly remember being ten years old, walking to school with a discman and I had Tupac’s greatest hits on it. I knew every single word on that album off by heart . . . I was discussing this with my friend who also grew up in middle-class suburbia. Why we were so drawn to Tupac? We didn’t grow up in those socio-economic conditions. My parents weren’t fighting for welfare and stuff.