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Is there a chance that a team so recently dubbed, “invincible” and “unbeatable” is actually more like “maddening” and “mediocre?”

“It’s a full-time job, chasing them down, emailing, calling, trying to get communication from them — and their lack of paying what we’re owed. It’s incredibly frustrating and just maddening.”

Watching the definition of madness in action can be maddening.

Here’s the thing about that maddening narrative of Irish specialness, which is all too easily weaponized for racist purposes, overt or otherwise: It is both a fictional construct and a core element of Irish identity.

And the premise — the maddening, exhausting tension between the creative and the hollowly lucrative — feels especially apt right now.