The one thing we can be sure of is that neither side will sit back and wait for a slow death
And they can’t get enough of it. They hate it so much that for the past four years in a row, the football final has been the most-watched sporting event on Irish television. In all but one of those years, it was beaten only by the Late Late Toy Show . In 2019, the last time Kerry and Dublin met in the final, the drawn match and replay grabbed the second and third biggest TV audiences of the year.— Ireland v South Africa is on at 8pm on a Saturday night, ditto Ireland v Scotland.
All in all, it felt like 10 weeks of polite conversation that suddenly erupted into six weeks of screaming matches. As a consequence, there was more focus than ever on what it was we were watching. It was bad enough that none of this seemed to matter in the greater scheme of things — did it really have to be such a godawful eyesore into the bargain?
Derry’s Brendan Rogers and Jack Barry of Kerry during the All-Ireland semi-final. File photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
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