When two maestros meet

IT WAS the calm before the storm. Páidí Ó Sé and Mick O’Dwyer, mentor and pupil, sitting side by side, swapping stories and experiences from a lifetime in the GAA.

At times yesterday, it bordered on a mutual admiration society, Páidí learning so much from his former boss that he might know too much.

O’Dwyer was, in turn, adamant that his former pupil is the one who “made the difference” in Westmeath getting to their first final in 55 years.