Hill Street Views: Dundalk debacle a sad sign of the time Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch Reporter: '); Football, eh? It’s a funny old game. Sometimes they think it’s all over… then it’s not, then it might be and eventually no one knows anything anymore. Last week was a bonkers week for all football fans who were crazily scrolling through social media feeds on their phones to get the latest breaking – sometimes actually ‘breaking’ - news. It seemed, at every level of the professional game last week, that things were coming apart at the seams. The Barbarians were here, and someone had left the door on the latch.