Hello to the Hill

I HAVE to confess, it had been a while. Owing to a combination of circumstances I hadn’t attended an inter-county championship match involving Dublin for quite some time (Honestly, you make one tongue-in-cheek comment about the personal hygiene of a Dublin person at a work Christmas party, and someone thinks HR should get involved . . .)

Earlier this year, therefore, when sent to cover their first clash with Meath in the Leinster championship, I racked my brains trying to think of the last time I saw the men in sky blue in the flesh.

It was quite a jolt when I realised it was the 1983 All-Ireland semi-final replay against Cork in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. For reasons that are legally obvious I don’t count one or two unverifiable sightings since then in Copper Face Jack’s.