Beaten but unbowed Mayo stick with plan

Dublin won it last year and Donegal won it this year.

You know you have to say they were the best prepared teams and maybe that’s why they won it

In the small hours of Monday morning Mayo’s players had a quick chat about the homecoming. Would they have one was the topic. Surrounded by people from a county decimated by the recession and who had spent their last few bob on getting to the final they decided, in unison, to go ahead with it.