On GAA roads, it’s the journey, not the destination

You shall know them by the trail of diesel receipts. Or the plastic wrapping from €2.99 best-of CDs picked up in service stations. By the Supermacs cartons and the Frank & Honest coffee cups, all of the fuel necessary to get an army on the road and to keep it marching.

Or driving, in this case.

On Saturday week, June 23, there seems to be an inter-county championship game in almost every corner of the country, and having a spread of venues that wide means loyal armies rise early and point the bonnet north.