The sunshine set

JOE KERNAN will tell you Armagh were the first GAA team to spend a few days training on foreign soil.

Actually, Sean Boylan beat him to the punch by a full 11 years.

Back in 1991, Dublin and Meath wrote one of the Association’s epic chapters in a four-game saga that spilled beyond the boundaries of the GAA community and entranced the entire nation. Intoxicating as it all was, Boylan decided his players needed a break from the madness by the time Meath and Dublin had drawn the third game.