Mayo’s All-Ireland win has the world jealous

Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images “The famine is over! The famine is over! The curse be damned! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland! Sam Maguire is coming home!”. If you have even a passing familiarity with sport-posting online, it’s likely you’ve heard those words – not quite spoken or screamed, but yelped with throat-cracking timbre – by Midwest Radio’s Stephen Grealis on Sunday, 26 July. More likely, you’ve heard them transposed over the dramatic final moments of the game on which he was commentating: the 2026 All-Ireland Gaelic football final between Mayo and Kerry. For the uninitiated, and with sincere apologies to every other Irish sporting occasion, the All-Ireland football final, in which the coveted Sam Maguire Cup is awarded, is the biggest e