Mayo in Mood to Start an Era of Western Promise ; the Final Word [Eire Region]
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IT IS hard to imagine now but there was once a time when teams from Ulster were football's poor relations, the butt of the most cruel jokes and, even worse, a patronising attitude from the rest of the sport.
Mired in the Troubles and lacking the infrastructure at schools and third level that are so sturdy today, the Ulster teams that arrived in Croke Park in the 1970s and 80s were almost always cannon fodder.See the full content of this document
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Mayo in Mood to Start an Era of Western Promise ; the Final Word [Eire Region]
From time to time one or two would threaten to cause an upset, Tyrone in 1985 being the most obvious to come to mind when they might have taken Kerry if Eugene McKenna's Achilles tendon had not snapped on the worst possible ...
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