Fear-induced control freakery will help no-one

THE night before Armagh played Roscommon in the 1980 All-Ireland semi-final Joe Kernan “rambled out for a drink to help me sleep”.

In his recently published autobiography, Without A Shadow of a Doubt, Joe revealed that he “drank three pints of Guinness, went home, slept well and woke up feeling great”.

The trouble for Joe was that Armagh lost by six points. And when word filtered out that Joe had been in a bar, his three liquid sleeping pills quickly morphed into “a feed of pints”.