An electric championship is emerging beyond the Pale

It may have escaped your attention, but beyond all the din and distractions, a pretty enjoyable football championship is happening out there with the prospect of a lot more fun to come. Don’t beat yourself up if you’ve hardly noticed, or you failed to appreciate such a development.

With all the outcry over Dublin’s dominance and the GAA’s purported complicity in facilitating it — some of the scepticism justified, some of it not — and all the noise about whether to tier or not to tier the championship, along with virtually nothing but hurling on your screens every Sunday, it could happen to anyone.