The answer to Mayo’s gaelic football prayers?

It takes more than guts to come back. Mayo fall guys in All-Ireland finals usually stay fallen. Dermot Geraghty never recovered from 2004. Dermot Flanagan admittedly was on his way out in 1997. But when 2012 befell Kevin Keane he had time on his side.

The record books will show that, unlike Geraghty and Nallen, the then 22-year-old played out the game that day.

However, his assignment on Michael Murphy was considered a failure from the third minute the Donegal captain rounded him and crashed the ball to the net.