Can we be very clear? The curse wasn’t broken, it was fulfilled. The curse was... real

OpinionSurrealing in the Years How can we use curses to our advantage going forward? CAUGHT IN THE jet stream of the 24-hour news cycle, wherein countries seem to decide afresh whether they are at war with each other at the start of each new day, it is too easy to move on too quickly from many stories that matter. Yes, it’s been nearly six days now, but it would be a mistake to forget the earth-shaking lesson of last Sunday. That lesson being: wait a second, curses are real? When young Jack Coyne led Mayo to their first Senior Men’s All-Ireland Football final victory in three-score and 15 years, it closed the book on one of the most statistically improbable trophy droughts in the history of the sport (or perhaps, indeed, in any sport — imagine a tennis player losing 13 Grand Slam finals wi