‘It seems like the end of the world right now’

OISÍN McCONVILLE was hurting afterwards, hurting big-time. “It seems like the end of the world right now,’’ he commented dejectedly.’’

However, he wasn’t alone amongst the Crossmaglen Rangers contingent who found it hard to face up to the reality that they had lost their first AIB All-Ireland club final in Croke Park yesterday.

More disappointingly for the squad and Donal Murtagh — who has been associated with all of their successes of recent times either as a player or manager — they never once looked like beating the Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes. And, that wasn’t just the neutral view. It was readily accepted by them.