Dubs can back up the bravado with brilliance

The divided reaction to David Hickey’s interview carried in this newspaper on Saturday wasn’t unexpected.

Here was a Dublin legend who called the five in a row when the team had not yet won the first of them insisting his county were “unbeatable”. His swagger and bravado is what most in and outside the county would come or at least hope to associate with a successful Dublin side.

Hickey is no Nostradamus and some of his other claims were outlandish. If we didn’t know better we might even say purposely so.