Alan Brogan goes long on division

There was no knee-jerk reaction with Alan Brogan yesterday when that old chestnut about splitting Dublin in two was put to him.

Talk to virtually anyone else with an allegiance to the county and their response to the theory is tangled up in their blind devotion to the blue, but Brogan’s was more considered even if he returned the same ‘no’ vote.

His reasoning was simple: Let’s not do anything hasty.