Laois keen to get over Dublin traumas
Not quite the day the music died but it was certainly the point at which Laois ceased to call the tune. Mick O’Dwyer’s side were leading Dublin by a point in the Leinster final as the clock ticked through the 70th minute and a second provincial title in three years appeared imminent.
Within five hectic minutes, all that had changed. Almost every single Laois player folded like a broken accordion onto the Croke Park turf. Their Dublin counterparts and supporters celebrated with an abandon that would hardly be matched until last September.
