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OVER THE years, the lads in Foley’s had a flutter on just about everything; from predicting the cut at Augusta, to the number of finishers in the Grand National; to the winning margin in the All-Ireland finals.

There had to be a winner, whose reward for bragging rights was, as had become custom, to put the winnings behind the bar for a round of Foley’s finest.