As Carlow keep rising, Offaly keep falling

I don’t know whether it was shock or despair or whether he was hoping something light would lighten the shock and despair, but Damian Martin was somehow trying to introduce a sense of hope after yesterday’s game in Tullamore.

“A few years before we made the breakthrough in 1980,” Damian said to me “we beat Wicklow by 0-3 to 0-1.”