Dean's practice makes perfect, declares Barney Rock

The morning after the madness of the day before and normality was holding sway in the heart of the city.

Team hotels are supposed to be chaotic affairs in the wake of an All-Ireland final. Win or lose, the scenes are invariably panoramas of excess and spent emotion. Players wander about in a daze, pulled hither and thither by their nearest and not so dearest alike.

Not in Dublin’s case.