Well, we answered all the questions, didn’t we?

YOU still get it. That heavy-hearted feeling after a Croke Park defeat.

I should probably wait ’til later to scribble this - wait for the blackness to blow over. I’m as disappointed as any of our players, but we have to rationalise, we must put things in perspective.

What have we achieved? After nine months together, these Laois lads have a Leinster winner’s medal in their pockets, and they’ll be back for more. Some reporter said to me in the tunnel: ‘Will you be back next year, Mick?’ Like I have a choice.