Fifth semi for Mayo is ‘satisfying’

Satisfying, said Keith Higgins. Not exhilarating, not life-changing, but satisfying.

It is a word that summed up Mayo’s latest step on the road to September and that reflected just how consistent they have been. Higgins has ten years in the senior ranks. He managed just one All-Ireland semi-final in his first five and didn’t even make the last eight in three of those campaigns. Now, here he is in a fifth semi-final in as many seasons.

No-one will remember that in the years to come. All this comprehensive defeat of Donegal has earned them is a shot at the all-powerful Dubs.