Eamonn Fitzmaurice tries to make sense of the madness of it all

Amid all the talk of tactics, of Aidan O’Shea shadowing Kieran Donaghy and the in-game managerial machinations and substitutions, there was the inescapable sense of a game that refused to bend to the will of any one man or either county.

Like their semi-final draw in 2014, and the replay in Limerick, this was a mad, joyous dash to the finish and there can’t have been a soul left shocked by the fact that the pair were inseparable come the end.

It was simply too much fun not to go again and Eamonn Fitzmaurice didn’t disagree with the notion that these games - as with so many involving Mayo - like to march to the beat of their own drum.