Light at the end of tunnel

In counties such as Leitrim they don’t measure success with trophies.

Indeed, they don’t even use victories to chart progress, so when Emlyn Mulligan queried afterwards when was the last time they had four championship games in a season, you just knew how important this win was.

Leitrim were the only side never to win a game in the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers and you just feared that was going to continue when Mayo inflicted a 22-point hammering in the Connacht semi-final.