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‘Mars bars’ rather than barbells as Laois success of late 90s ‘cyclical’ rather than engineered

15 September 1996; The Laois minor team. All-Ireland Minor Football Championship Final, Kerry v Laois, Croke Park, Dublin. Picture credit; Ray McManus / SPORTSFILE

You’ll travel a long way in life before you meet someone who isn’t nostalgic in some shape or form. And when you talk to a Laois person who is interested in GAA and older than 30 – they will almost certainly bring you back to a period in the late 90s and early 2000s when…