The Fiona McHale interview: Still chasing the dream

In 2004, Fiona McHale joined up with a Mayo team that had won four of the last five All-Ireland titles. She has long become the oil in the green and red engine, but the medal she presumed would come still hasn’t arrived. Tomorrow, against Dublin, she dreams again.

CORA’S Swansong versus Dublin’s Redemption Call. It’s no surprise that, in her 23rd season, Cora Staunton’s virtuosity and longevity dominates the narrative of tomorrow’s TG4 All-Ireland SFC final, even against a side bidding to break a losing streak of three consecutive finals.

Staunton is Gaelic football’s diva — in the proper, non-Beyonce sense of that word.