Paul Fitzpatrick: This rainy season has been a long one for the Cavan football fan

Cavan players celebrate beating Donegal in the Ulster final last month. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

The smoke has finally cleared and Cavan supporters are content again. It was a rough ‘go-through’, as they say in these parts, that last quarter-century or so but at last, we can put it behind us and say that Cavan are back where they should be.

Now that everything is well again, Cavan fans have found themselves taking stock, adopting the air of someone assessing the damage after a tropical storm.