It is to Portumna’s credit that they managed to pull level with three minutes remaining in Athenry when Kevin Hayes rattled the net but anything other than a Gort win would have been a travesty.
You’d wonder, though, what Aidan Harte thought when he saw inter-county colleague Joe Canning trot over to him before the ball was thrown in.
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