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TV VIEW:MICHAEL LYSTER was flummoxed, almost as much as the folk on the Hill. “Could you tell me, how did Dublin lose that,” he asked.

Joe Brolly and Colm O’Rourke were in no fit state to reply, too busy trying to hoist their jaws off the studio floor, so Pat Spillane, as he can be inclined to do, filled the silence: “Innocence. Naivete. Stupidity,” he replied.