The football championship started in earnest today, and served up a moment that doesn’t get any less jaw-dropping the more often you hear it. Wicklow won a senior championship match at Croke Park for the first time ever. The people from Wicklow who were at Croke Park today stand alone among every native of their county who has ever lived. The next time someone claims that Waterford have somehow come up short by failing to win the All-Ireland, slap them about the face with that dead fish of a factoid.
