Dublin and Kildare to scratch a seven-year itch

IT WAS, in a number of ways, a seminal day. Mick O’Dwyer took charge of Kildare for the last time, Dublin won a first Leinster title since 1995 and Croke Park welcomed its biggest crowd in four decades.

It was a pretty big deal for Alan Brogan too.

The young attacker had already won a provincial medal earlier that summer alongside Stephen Cluxton, Paul Casey and Barry Cahill for the U21s but this was on a different scale.