Wicklow left with heads in hands

Wicklow 1-14 Louth 1-19: If a Championship exists within the Championship, where weaker counties strive to stem the tide of continual defeat for just one day, Wicklow almost won their All-Ireland yesterday.

Not since 2014 have they celebrated a win in the Championship and they’ve yet to experience that feeling at all under Johnny Magee, in the job three years now.

But with 68 minutes on the clock at Parnell Park and just a point between the teams, and John McGrath about to kick the equaliser, a small pocket of hardened Wicklow fans dared to dream.