Back to the future for Jim’s army

FOOTBALL Man to Hurling Man, Cork city centre bar, early part of last decade: “What do you think of the International Rules?”

Hurling Man, sans a batted eyelid: “I don’t think of the International Rules.”

Donegal are a bit like that, too, aren’t they? Every now and then they intrude on the national consciousness, only to slip quietly away again for years on end.