With scales tipping, Bennis can dream

EVEN when you’re on the bread line, it’s worth remembering that there’s somebody, somewhere, worse off than you are.

When you've eaten your fill from the top table, as Ritchie Bennis did back in 1973, subsistence living must be all the more galling, but the county's long years of frustration haven't blunted the Patrickswell legend's sense of humour.

Across the road from him, he says, is a Limerick woman married to a Mayo man. "Imagine that poor woman supporting those two counties," he chuckles. "They've hardly a win between them in Croke Park in 30 years."