Colin Sheridan: The Dubs are already picking away at our hopes and dreams

Spring break in the National Football League, and after three rounds of drama including timekeeping issues, ridiculous red cards and a fixture list designed by Jared Kushner, there exists much food for thought, even if the conclusions are pretty much the same.

As the curtain fell on two epic All-Ireland finals last autumn, there was a sense that we were closer than we had been in a decade to an end to the dominance of Dublin, which was as majestic in its execution as it was suffocating in its grim reality.