Gavin giving nothing away ahead of final

Stony visages. Clipped answers. Uncomfortable silences.

It may be 20 years since Dublin won a national league title but the thoughts of being just 70 minutes away from rectifying that fact after yesterday’s win hardly made for outbreaks of joy, or conversation, yesterday.

Jim Gavin and Stephen Cluxton sat and soaked up the media’s queries for a good seven minutes in all but there wasn’t a man or woman who left the room when all was said and done who could claim to be any the wiser. Any blood there was remained in the stone.