Luckless Durcan’s kick-out gaffe leaves Jimmy mystified

So what exactly was Paul Durcan pictured thinking?

It was a question that prompted a thousand barstool debates on Sunday night yet, many hours later, there were still no definitive conclusions.

The Donegal goalkeeper looked bright eyed and fresh at their CityWest Hotel base yesterday afternoon but politely refused requests for an interview which, inevitably, would have centred on the calamitous error. The vastly experienced keeper miscued an attempted short kick-out in the 52nd minute, sending the ball out to Kerry’s Kieran Donaghy instead of an intended Donegal defender. Moments later, Donegal’s net rippled.