Dr David Hickey: ‘I don’t have much time for this Mayo team. They’re a tragic outfit’

Dublin legend Dr David Hickey doesn’t have a high opinion of the champions' challengers

OFF COLOUR: A dejected Aidan O’Shea after Mayo’s defeat to Dublin in the 2017 All-Ireland SFC final. Picture: Inpho/Tommy Dickson

“When is this going to appear?” asks Dr David Hickey, a flicker of roguishness in his query. “Saturday? That’s okay then — so Mayo won’t have much time to read it.”

Pride colours so many of the former Dublin star’s words as he talks about the All-Ireland champions, a group many of whom he got to know well as a selector during Pat Gilroy’s time and as a medic in the early part of Jim Gavin’s era.