Jim Gavin is Dublin’s quiet man of action

History may be dictated by the victors, but they don’t always get the story straight.

It’s 14 years since Armagh’s solitary All-Ireland title, one embellished by one of the most famous of half-time incidents when the plaque Joe Kernan received for losing to Kerry in the 1977 decider ended up in smithereens on the floor of the Ulster county’s dressing room.

One quote from the days that followed has Big Joe chortling about how he “hopped it off the walls”. Another has him quoted as explaining that it “somehow by accident” came a cropper off the showers. Whatever the exact truth, it has long been surpassed by the legend.