Mike Quirke: Dublin are the four-minute mile - football needs a Roger Bannister

Nobody had broken it until Roger Bannister did it. And once he did it, in the next four years there were 30 other people who did it.

Laois manager Mike Quirke: 'We were looking at Dublin as the four-minute mile in April, 1954... It’s about seeing someone do it first of all and then that belief spreading...' Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane

Beating Dublin is like breaking the four-minute mile, suggests Laois manager Mike Quirke. It just needs a Roger Bannister to prove it can be done.

Laois suffered a 2-23 to 0-7 drubbing in last Sunday’s Leinster SFC semi-final by a Dublin team Quirke regards as the "greatest to ever play the game".