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Is County Mayo’s Gaelic football team cursed? Sports reporter Dave McKenna investigates this curious case to find out if a decades-old hex is behind their recent failures.

Is County Mayo’s Gaelic football team cursed? You might have heard of the “Curse of Bambino” for the Boston Red Sox in US baseball. This is the story of Ireland’s equivalent. Irish-American sports reporter Dave McKenna investigates this curious case to find out if a decades old hex is behind their recent failures. Did the team really disrespect a funeral in 1951? And did that cause the mysterious bad luck that’s plagued the team ever since? Episode 1 of 3.

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Sun 3 Dec 2023 22:32GMT
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