Mayo fans are known to whip themselves into a frenzy ahead of an All-Ireland final. Painting sheep green and red isn’t half of it.
or three days ahead of the Mayo v Cork final in 1989, my little brother Micheál and I sat on the wall outside our house, furiously waving flags at passing truck drivers and being progressively deafened by their supportive drags on their air horns.
The buzz, the hype, the nerves, the excitement – it was almost too much.
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