Moran says fans kept us going

IT could be argued there was no winner in what was billed as the main event in Croke Park yesterday with Donegal and Dublin having to do it all again in a couple of weeks.

But that was not the case. There were winners all round, as two fine sporting sides enjoyed the new Croke Park for the second time in a few weeks, there was a capacity crowd of nearly 80,000, and visitors Donegal came back to catch the home side in a nail-biting finish.

And this is very much Dublin's home patch. Talk of National Stadium or not, when the boys in blue are in Croker, when Hill 16 is rocking to the rhythm "come on you boys" ringing out over the city, Dublin are at home, and it is one of the great sights in GAA.