Mayo beat 75-year-old ‘curse’ to become Gaelic football champions

Team to return for euphoric homecoming after winning all-Ireland men’s final against Kerry, ending decades of defeats

The hex is broken, dispelled, banished, and a story that bewitched Ireland for decades has ended in fairytale: Mayo are all-Ireland champions.

Seventy-five years after a supposed curse condemned its Gaelic men’s football team to endless defeat, the county prevailed and uncorked a wave of emotion that engulfed even its rivals.