How Mayo became Dublin’s bogeymen

Mayo are hardly Dublin’s bogey team but in the eyes of many of the capital’s supporters they are bogeymen. They are the team they warn their children about. Condemned to death only to rise and haunt opponents again and again.

Mayo prompt fear in the Dublin ranks, a lot of it irrational. For their team’s five-in-a-row odyssey to be ended would be distressing anyway but for Mayo to become those dream-stealers would be unconscionable.