Ireland’s County Mayo breaks 75-year ‘curse’ in Gaelic football championship victory

In Dublin, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) All Ireland Football championship culminated this past weekend as County Mayo ended a 75-year “famine” by winning the Sam Maguire Cup, defeating the favored team to win, County Kerry, and putting to rest the supposed “curse” cast upon the Mayo by a priest in 1951.Gaelic football is a traditional Irish team sport that blends elements of rugby, soccer, and basketball.Legend has it that after winning their last All Ireland in 1951, the victorious Mayo team…