A summer certainty: more magic from Micko

YOU just begin to take these things for granted. Mick O’Dwyer, in the championship, winning games.

Even with Wicklow. This is the second consecutive year they’ve been victorious in the first round of the Leinster campaign. That’s not something they’ve been able to say for a while.

But when the man with the rolled up match programme comes to town, he brings results. It is undoubtedly a magic of sorts. Kerry, obviously. Kildare and Laois were transformed from dreamers to Leinster champions.