‘It’s going to take a while for us to get over this’

PAUL CAFFREY tried to but a brave face on it but there is only so much hurt a man can endure — more so when that man is the manager of the Dublin footballers.

Last year he stood in these same corridors shellshocked after his team imploded spectacularly leaving Mayo slip past them and into an All-Ireland Final.

Yesterday there were no such complaints. Indeed it looked like Dublin were to do to Kerry what the westerners did to them when they produced a surging late comeback which forced the champions to dig deep into their reserves of spirit, strength and experience.