This Dublin side simply refuses to let one slip — they just find a way

Five titles in seven years. Four of them after finals won on the slimmest of scorelines, the other by the positively luxurious margin of three points. The instinct is to look at yesterday’s events through the prism of Mayo’s heartache but this is a story dictated by Dublin.

Maybe it’s not that Mayo are destined to go without their All-Ireland so much as the fact that this Dublin side simply refuses to let one slip. Rampant summer after summer, they steel themselves for the mother of all tasks each September and they find a way.

Somehow. Anyhow.