It came and went 'the promised land'

In last Friday's Evening Herald, Liam Hayes, who the author Kevin Doyle referred to as 'once a giant of Meath football', is quoted as saying that Dublin are heading for a 'bad ending' and that their manager Pat Gilroy 'had gone soft' and 'finished his job a year early'. 

Hayes has never been backward about coming forward and is known in media circles for being controversial for the sake of being controversial. However, on the first Sunday in September his premonition came to pass, and how. The 'bad ending' materialised, Dublin's limitations were alarmingly exposed and Gilroy's men had a 'job' done on them - by Mayo, again.