Odhrán MacNiallais: We lost a match, you get over it. When you lose a mate it is something you don’t get over

He takes us back to a night in late January 2019. A car leaves the road a few miles outside Gortahork. Four young men are killed. The outpouring of grief hangs over the county for weeks. Months

Odhran Mac Niallais overlooking Dunlewey in Co Donegal. Picture: Brian McDaid.

When he paints the picture of what an Ulster final is for him, OdhránMac Niallais goes for the abstract.

It’s not really the journey into the ground with thousands on the streets, banging the sides of the bus and the flares going off.