Party weekend came back to bite Donegal

August 5, 2002 — the afternoon Donegal extended their All-Ireland SFC interests by another 12 days.

The night they ensured it would last no longer than that.

It was also the day that convinced Mickey Moran and John Morrison they had brought the players, as Morrison says, “not as far as they could have gone with us but as far as they wanted to go with us.”