Tommy Martin: While Dublin are not good, the Dub may never have been happier

It is this glimpse into the true soul of the Dub that makes the current struggles so delicious.

29 January 2022; Dublin supporters, in the Cusack Stand, before the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Dublin and Armagh at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile

RING-ring-a-rosie, and all that.

The light declines on Dublin’s long summer and still no one who saw it can quite believe it. Uncharacteristic. Un-Dublin-like. People shake their heads as if it is not real, though they have seen enough last year and so far this spring to know it must be.