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Battle of the Bog: A Laois-Offaly rivarly that goes back over a century

The celebrated sports writer Con Houlihan had a great turn of phrase and one of his particularly catchy lines was when he described a Laois-Offaly Leinster championship match as The Battle of the Bog. We’d like to think in these parts that there’s more bog in Offaly than there is in Laois but regardless it’s…