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Darragh O’Se. File Photo.
YOU can nearly, always count on a Darragh O’Se article in The Irish Times, to give you at least one decent chuckle.
This week, while lamenting the sadness of an All-Ireland Final loss around the county he uses the sight of a lonely flag in Glenbeigh to humorous to effect, to embody that feeling.
“A lost All-Ireland final hangs around the county like a bad smell,” Darragh O’Se writes in his column in the Irish Times today.
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“You could be driving through a small village like Glenbeigh in the middle of November and there’d be one last green flag hanging off the side of a pub. The week of the final, dozens of them would have been up – flags and bunting and window paintings and the whole nine yards.”
“But after the final is lost, the enthusiasm doesn’t be long draining away. The flags come down but there’s nearly always one last one left up because a fella can’t be bothered to hop up on a ladder. One lonesome flag flapping in the wind and the rain, a reminder to everyone that the whole thing went to shit.”
Darragh, also dispensed of any accusations of ‘cute hoorism’ by backing Kerry to beat Dublin by three points.
“In the end, I will go with Kerry. I think last year’s All-Ireland will have stood to them and I think they’re a bit further down the road….Both sides are packed with scoring forwards but I think Kerry have a few more options that you can rely on.”
Read the full article here
