Orchard overshadows Dubs dreams
In front of their fourth full house of the championship and a baying hometown support, Tommy Lyons’ men were favourites to advance to the final, but time ran out on them in cruel circumstances when it looked like the two sides would have to go to a replay to decide this semi-final.
With the game in injury-time, Dublin’s ace marskman Ray Cosgrove stepped up to take a free kick which, if successful, would level the scores and force the sides to meet once more. But the young Dubliner, along with tens of thousands of his countymen, watched in horror as the ball came back off the upright.
