First there’s a sigh, the admission he still hasn’t watched the game back on video to this day and then, still frustrated with the part he played in it, he opens up.
“We were there or thereabouts until the last minute,” says Connacht’s Gavin Duffy on the 1999 All-Ireland MFC final against Down.
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