Could Cavan match fever of Rossies, the maddest of them all?

What scenes of celebration in Salthill on Sunday as Roscommon fans stormed the field in celebration of a first Connacht football title since… wait... 2017?

Could Cavan match fever of Rossies, the maddest of them all?

What scenes of celebration in Salthill on Sunday as Roscommon fans stormed the field in celebration of a first Connacht football title since… wait... 2017?

Hang on a minute. As GAA famines go, this doesn’t even count as a slight tummy rumble. Ecstatic, health-and-safety-endangering pitch invasions are understandable when you’ve just ended an epoch of desperate longing, along with talk of curses broken and scenes of old men crying uncontrollably.

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