Leinster championship is already over

The Leinster senior football championship began yesterday, but it’s already over

Last winter, a couple of teammates from a club in the capital, two rival inter-county players in Leinster, were shooting the breeze. They got talking about demands on bodies and minds. One, from down the country, said it was the little things. “They put so much stress on time. Like getting home exhausted and trying to make food that sticks to a diet we’re given, it’s hard.” The other, a Dublin player, looked ...