Wow! What a weekend!
WHAT A WEEK!
Everywhere I go, everywhere I see…
Sounds like a Boomtown Rats song…
Huh?
Oh forget it.
Anyway, everywhere I turn…
MAYO? Yes… MAYO!
It’s… unreal!
(They pause to watch more clips of Mayo-related mayhem)
Did you get the email… from the Editor?
Yeah! Not like him… he’s usually more, I dunno… laissez-faire!
Exactly! Not like him to send us a directive! He usually ignores us!
Seemingly he’s been very taken by Mayo’s win!
Like the whole country, and half the world!
I guess he’s an old sentimentalist at heart!
Maybe… but I also heard a rumour that he backed them to win! Anyway, that email… fancy gently encouraging us to write about Mayo’s win!
Which we were always likely to do…
Yeah, but I think because we’re such passionate Rossies, he was afraid we’d go rogue!
Never! And let’s face it, midst all the banter, we’re both happy for Mayo!
(They pause to watch even more Mayo-related reels)
Ah yeah, very happy for Mayo, although…
Oh please…
Wasn’t it the Editor himself who took inspiration from the Monty Python line – ‘What did the Romans ever do for us?’ – when he wrote about Galway hurlers recently?
I only read Frank Brandon…
Oh come on!
I was joking…
Point is, what HAS Mayo ever done for us?
Are we really doing this?
YEP!
Well, Mayo gave us magical Achill…
Okay, but apart from Achill…
Bustling Westport?
Okay, fair enough…
Monsignor Horan and Knock Airport…
That’s a good one in fairness, but APART from that…
Joe Biden and Charlie Haughey… and Pee Flynn!
Careful!
Well, apart from some colourful politicians, and Westport, and Achill, and Knock Airport, what have the Mayos ever done for us?
Cora Staunton! Mary Robinson!
Fair enough, accomplished ladies…
The McDonalds, Ciarán and Kobe…
Okay…
Enda Kenny…
Ahem!
Croagh Patrick…
Indeed…
Mayo also gave us… Michael Ring! Michael’s a legend!
Well what ELSE has Mayo done for us?
Louis Walsh?
Well, the Mayo footballers certainly have the X Factor this week! So my friend, between this column and the sports pages and all the social media stuff, nobody can say the Roscommon People hasn’t rowed in behind our neighbours!
Indeed! Hail the new All-Ireland champions!
So is this the new world order? Is it a Roscommon-Mayo love-in from now on?
You must be joking! This is a temporary little arrangement! This love-in will expire in due course! Roll on Mayo v Roscommon in the National League!
Both: Well done Mayo, and come on the Rossies!
