O’Mahony looks for positives after final frustration

A FAMILIAR script.

Another national final in Croke Park and yet again a Mayo team departs for the west with its tail between its legs, disillusionment crashing down on them in great big waves.

The Connacht team’s propensity to disappoint in the capital can be traced right back to the 1950s and it haunts them more with every lacklustre performance and negative result like yesterday’s. It is now nine years since they claimed some silverware (an NFL title) in Dublin 3.